Inland Empire Harm Reduction
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832802661
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9513645311
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $706,104
- Expenses
- $652,668
- Assets
- $163,698
- Liabilities
- $1,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER SYVERTSEN PHD MPH (INTERIM TREASURER)
- MATEO SAMORA (BOARD SECRETARY)
- DESMOND YOUNG (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Inland empire harm reduction is a community-based public health organization working to improve the health and well-being of people affected by drug use in the inland empire region of riverside and san bernardino counties.
What it reported doing in 2025
Syringe service program: within this program we conduct outreach in the community three times per week. This entails distribution of safer use supplies, water, and food when needed. We also collect used syringes that we can properly dispose of. We hold regular street clean ups and community members can call us to clean syringe litter. 30,827 syringes were collected, and 2,515 sharps containers, and 51,602 safe use kits and 25,933 support supplies were distributed.we expanded our drug checking program and now offer gc/ms lab based confirmatory drug checking services. This is in addition to the distribution of test strips, of which 6,169 fentanyl and 2,808 zylazine test strips were distributed.covid funding also allowed us to provide covid mitigation items (masks, at-home test kits, hand sanitizer), in addition to linkages and referrals to those affected by covid.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 62% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 7.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 69.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $454K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.