Family Health Centers of San Diego
Legal name: Family Health Centers of San Diego Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952833205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- (619) 515-2300
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,260,631
- Expenses
- $408,524,789
- Assets
- $779,562,941
- Liabilities
- $105,317,670
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fran Butler-Cohen (President & CEO)
- Christopher Gordon (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Fran Butler-Cohen (President & CEO): $1,449,977 total reported compensation
- Alan Zieg (Chief of OBGYN): $715,053 total reported compensation
- Christopher Gordon (President): $598,637 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For more than 55 years, Family Health Centers of San Diego9s mission has been to provide caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons. The EWC program provides free breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services to California’s underserved populations. The mission of the EWC program is to alleviate the devastating medical, emotional and financial effects of breast and cervical cancer and eliminate health disparities for medically underserved, low-income individuals. To learn more about this program, or find out if you qualify, click here. Family Planning, Access, Care and Treatment (Family PACT).
What it reported doing in 2024
Primary and dental care services and AIDS prevention -through us health and human services with the assistance of grant funding. Primary care and dental care are provided to the socially disadvantaged. Also, through us health and human services, AIDS education and instruction on preventative measures are provided.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and the available information about grant readiness federal audit leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $224.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $314.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 38 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.6M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 30 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.