Essential Care and Health Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853976068
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Upland, CA, USA
Phone
9095604302
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,151
Expenses
$33,105
Assets
$412,075
Liabilities
$853

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLAIRE GROBLER (PRESIDENT/CE)

People named in this filing

  • CLAIRE GROBLER (PRESIDENT/CE)
  • LYVIA KAUSHAL (TREASURER/V.)
  • LOURDES TOLMOCHOW (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Essential care and health organization's mission is to ensure equal access to high-quality preventative care services, through our commitment towards improving long-term health outcomes to individuals within our community. We strive to support families in need through care, resources, and guidance, while encouraging collaboration to promote accessible care that nourishes the mind, body, and soul.

What it reported doing in 2025

Committed to improving long-term health outcomes in under served communities through early nutrition education. Our first initiative brings an engaging, age-appropriate health lesson directly into first-grade classrooms in underprivileged schools within our community. Each classroom visit includes: a live reading of mix and munch: billies balanced lunch a personal copy of the book for every student a reusable four-section plate that teaches balanced eating by combining storytelling with a practical, everyday tool, we help children visualize what a balanced meal looks like and how to build one themselves.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 44.9%; rating input score 45

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -105%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.45; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -88.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 44.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.