Community Health For Asian American

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943237212
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5108352777
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Mental Health Center

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,883,964
Expenses
$3,195,978
Assets
$5,129,218
Liabilities
$2,474,787

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ji Won Chung (President & Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ji Won Chung (President & Executive Director): $112,718 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

CHAA partners with the diverse Asian and Pacific Islander communities in an on-going effort to reduce health disparities in a manner that honors and nutures authentic leadership, with the promotion of community, family and consumer wellness, voice and choice.

What it reported doing in 2024

Outreach and Prevention: Child/Youth and Adult: CHAA has been active in the community through advocacy, community readiness and awareness campaigns, workshops and outreach in the communities it serves. CHAA (Community Health for Asian Americans) offers the core of a system of care for Asian Pacific Islnder youth and their families by addressing critical issues in multiple life domans with integreated interventions across the entire wellnes continum, to strength teh overall care structure for participating youth and their fmailies, and to engage youth participants in positive youth development thata evolves over the course of the initiative into homegrown advocacy. CHAA prevention services include: mental health, alcohol/drug prevention, domestic violence, a community mobilizing/organizing, and youth development. Treatment-Child/Youth and Adult: CHAA delivers a full range of mental health servcies provided by a multi-disciplinary staff that includes psychiatrist, psychologists, licensed clinicians, and other mental health specialists. Its treatment philosopy is strength based and community based It offers crisis intervention, comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, medication management, short and long-term counseling, psycho educational groups, case management to address a wide range of mental health problems including depression anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, chonic mental illnes and somatic disorders.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 85% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.