Healthy Room Project Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874421434
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Ripon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104653388
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $352,624
- Expenses
- $394,880
- Assets
- $136,027
- Liabilities
- $118,542
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHERINE EBADI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER ALVARADO (DIRECTOR)
- LINDA DODGE (SECRETARY/DI)
- SHERINE EBADI (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The healthy room project transforms lives by creating safe, inspiring bedrooms for children aged 5-16 from families facing homelessness, domestic violence, addiction challenges, or foster care. Led by police officers, our one-day room makeovers provide beds, desks, and decor, fostering hope and dignity. Through our programs like 10k with a cop, recess play, and kindergarten cop programs, we build the necessary trust to identify kids in need. Partnering with law enforcement, teachers, and 50+ organizations in California, we empower children to learn, play, and dream in nurturing spaces, strengthening communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The healthy room project transforms lives by creating safe, inspiring bedrooms for children aged 5-16 from families facing homelessness, domestic violence, addiction challenges, or foster care. Led by police officers, our one-day room makeovers provide beds, desks, and decor, fostering hope and dignity. In 2025 we provided 285 room makeovers for children facing these challenges, all in partnership with first responders and the community they serve. We have operated alongside 30 police and sheriff departments across four states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $349.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.9%; rating input score 98; 60th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 57.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $358K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.