Healthy California Now

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832864867
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9162855733
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,287
Expenses
$32,313
Assets
$166,449

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Lighty (President)
  • Cindy Young (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Lighty (President)
  • Clifford Tasner (Secretary)
  • Stephen Vernon (CFO)

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

The goal of the organization is to liberate California from the stranglehold of the health insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry, to end the opaque and exorbitant pricing practices, and to deliver guaranteed healthcare to all of our state's residents with a single-payer system.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Healthy California Now successfully coordinated engagement with CalHHS and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research on the development of a report on pathways to unified financing, written by UCLA researchers. We convened policy experts to provide guidance on the report, and reactions to initial drafts. We also participated in education and issue advocacy on the impacts of the healthcare budget cuts implemented through the federal bill, HR 1. We participated in letter-writing campaigns, forums, coalition meetings and conducted our own education events among affiliates. We also offered support for legislation addressing disparities in behavioral health services in California.We operate through our affiliate organizations, so they are the source of volunteers, rather than HCN directly, with the exception of Board members who volunteer their time.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.6%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 68.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.15; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 46.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.6% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.