Harbor Emergency Medical Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474325468
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Villa Park, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3107533027
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,174
- Expenses
- $161,723
- Assets
- $282,491
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Madonna Fernandez-Frackelton (CEO)
- Ryan Pedigo (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lauren Fryling (Director Social EM rotation): $12,000 total reported compensation
- Christiane Roeder-Sanchez (CFO): $6,000 total reported compensation
- Viraj Deshpande (Research assistant): $1,680 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organizations mission is to support the educational environment for first responders in Los Angeles and Southern California. This is accomplished by reimbursing educational materials conference costs professional society memberships licensing fees and meals on shift to name a few items. We also provide much needed administrative support to the program and support recruitment for the next workforce.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the fiscal year our organization disbursed $5,000 to the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine SAEM in honor of Dr. Amy Kaji. This contribution facilitated the creation of a dedicated medical student research grant made possible by the generosity of our alumni donors. Furthermore $14,797 was directed towards assisting medical students experiencing financial challenges particularly supporting them with expenses related to travel and lodging while completing rotations in Los Angeles. These grants played a vital role in easing the financial burdens faced by students as they pursued their medical education and research aspirations. The funding for these initiatives was augmented by the CalMedForce grant enhancing our ability to support these crucial programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 25.3%; rating input score 25; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 14 filed program accomplishments · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.