Friends of Health on the Northern Mendocino Coast
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680202517
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Fort Bragg, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7074894016
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,171
- Expenses
- $38,448
- Assets
- $330,926
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carolyn Petersen (President)
- Gin Kremen (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carolyn Petersen (President)
- Gin Kremen (Vice President)
- Mary Flannery Kraut (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
Friends of Health is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people experiencing medical crises, or facing the end of life. The organization provides community and professional education on issues of acute and chronic illness, as well as grief. The organization affirms death as a completion within each life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of Health funded many small, somewhat unconventional, medically related requests made by local caregiving organizations, for their parents, who were unable to get help elsewhere.The organization sponsored and paid a Grief Group Counselor to hold regular meetings for those in need of help with grieving issues.The organization sponsored and funded Workshop to help professional caregivers and family caregivers deal with dementia patients in their life. The organization donated small medical equipment to be redonated to those in need. This was done through the local Hospice Thrift Store.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.8%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.9%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.61; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -65.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.8% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.