Fraternity House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330306861
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vista, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7607360292
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,217,284
- Expenses
- $1,337,427
- Assets
- $338,886
- Liabilities
- $44,773
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marilynn Kimball (Vice President)
- Scott Guiltner (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Daniel Hickey (Executive Dir.): $77,480 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mission of Fraternity House, Inc. is to provide warm and caring homes where vulnerable individuals living with HIV/AIDS can receive comprehensive care and services in order to rebuild their health and return to independent living; or where they can spend their last days in comfort and dignity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fraternity House, Inc. is a service organization that only cares for people who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and are homeless, housing insecure, or low-income. The five current largest program services are: 1 Housing, 2 Caregiving, 3 Case Management, 4 Activities and Rehabilitation The Dignity Project, and 5 Semi-Independent Living. Housing focuses on the overall operations and maintenance of our 24-hour care home. Caregiving is the backbone of our 24-hour care services, being necessary in fulfilling state licensing requirements. Residents receive 24-hour per day personal care and are supervised in their activities of daily living and in adherence with complex medication regimens. Both Case Management and Activities/Rehabilitation connect our residents with medical, mental health, and other needed services as well as goal setting to rebuild their lives and obtain a greater level of independence. We engage every resident in working toward a return to independent living. As of 2025, Semi-Independent Living is in its fifth-year operating apartments where residents live quasi-independently with a safety net of services to ensure continued autonomy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $91.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.