Easterseals Northern California

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841839186
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
San Ramon, CA, US
Phone
(800) 234-2255
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,269,397
Expenses
$27,745,133
Assets
$5,883,920
Liabilities
$1,396,290

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDREA PETTIFORD (SECRETARY & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANDREA PETTIFORD (SECRETARY & CEO): $504,983 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTINE GOMEZ (DIRECTOR, EARLY INTERVENTION): $186,021 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL TIURA (CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATOR - PSYCHOLOGIST): $162,635 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families, addressing critical service gaps and expanding reach to meet evolving community needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, our kaleidoscope community adult program (kcap), which supports individuals ages 18 and up with intellectual and developmental disabilities, continued to provide its community-based programming in walnut creek and dublin, focusing on community integration, socialization and independent living skills development with a creative curriculum that's hailed as being both fun and educational. Critical programs like kaleidoscope offer participants opportunities for socialization and community integration, pre-employment training, leisure and recreation, and building skills in home and personal hygiene, money management, transportation, safety and self-advocacy. This past year, kaleidoscope celebrated significant program growth in our walnut creek location with an increase in participation count by 150%. In 2025, kaleidoscope provided more than 53,000 hours of service to 66 participants, and grew its volunteer opportunities as part of its commitment to community integration and pre-vocational curriculum. Such opportunities included growing food at local community gardens, making treats for and tending to animals at local shelters, organizing donations and pricing merchandise at american cancer society shops. Such commitments offer participants a chance to explore a wide range of duties that can support future career paths, as well as foster strong interpersonal relationships. During the 2025 year, our respite program experienced growth in providing in-home and community-based respite care for children, teens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd). Through this program, caregivers are able to wind down or fulfill other parts of their lives and bring a renewed energy and compassion to their caregiving; meanwhile, clients are able to socialize with a trusted and reliable practitioner who helps them be set up for success. The program saw a nearly doubled increase in enrolled families. Over 14,000 hours of respite care were delivered to the 63 families in the program, compared to the 7,400 hours served to 38 families in 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $505K · 12 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $139K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.