Center for Health Empowerment in South Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332025853
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2102862775
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $307,201
- Expenses
- $82,689
- Assets
- $224,512
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA (President & CEO): $30,644 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CHEST is dedicated to advancing the health outcomes for residents of the South, West, and East San Antonio area, through increased education, access, investment, and cross-sector collaboration.
What it reported doing in 2024
During this fiscal year, CHEST invested in essential organizational development to establish the leadership structures, financial systems, and operational infrastructure needed to responsibly scale and sustain community-based health programs. Programs designed to improve health outcomes and contribute to measurable gains in life expectancy across the South, West, and East of San Antonio and surrounding areas.Major accomplishments included: Hiring the organizations first President & CEO to lead strategic planning, partnerships, and program design Establishing administrative offices and operational systems Developing CHESTs mission, vision, and strategic framework centered on reducing health disparities Launching the organizations website, branding, and public communications platforms Creating governance structures and strengthening board engagement Initiating partnerships with local health providers, community organizations, and stakeholders Conducting community engagement and planning discussions to identify priority health needs and service gaps These activities built the operational and strategic foundation required for implementation of preventive health access initiatives, community wellness programming, and health interventions in the following fiscal year. Although CHEST was in its initial capacity-building phase during this reporting period, the president & ceo engaged community stakeholders and partners in preparation for direct program implementation through approximately 100+ meetings, activities, and events in her first several months.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.8%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 44%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: $3,614.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.72; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.8% of revenue deployed · 44% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.