Innovative Health Solutions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453957719
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Benicia, CA, USA
Phone
7072055572
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,478,350
Expenses
$2,369,286
Assets
$733,749
Liabilities
$127,037

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DRCORINNE L QUINN (PRESIDENT)
  • NORMA LISENKO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • NORMA LISENKO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $224,295 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Innovative health solutions is committed to leading the way in uniting public and private organizations to drive collective policy, systems, and environmental changes that strengthen our communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Wellness programs-we work with a local high school and another community organizations implementing the "healthy local multimedia campaign project", promoting nutrition and physical activity through healthy cooking, garden education, and multimedia content. -our "healthy cooking with kids" nutrition education program has been implemented throughout the benicia unified high school district. This program was established to improve access to fresh healthy foods and increase nutrition education by offering a comprehensive nutrition education program for youth. -our cooking and tasting program engage elementary school children in hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures to improve children's nutrition.-for older adults, we developed and implemented the "everybody loves line dancing" (elld) 6-week curriculum in partnership with three area agency on aging organizations and contractors at local community centers, senior centers, veteran centers, assisted living facilities, and senior apartment complexes. The goal of the elld curriculum was to promote optimal health for older adults through relevant physical activity, social engagement, and nutrition education about healthy and tasty recipes with tips on planning nutritious meals.-in fiscal 2025, we reimagined community dining with lunch buddies bistro - a program that transformed an ordinary lunch into a celebration of good food, friendship, and vibrant community life. Older adults gathered at seven loal community centers across solano county to share meals, spark new friendships, and participate in fun, engaging activities. Total people served in 2025: 15,042 monthly average: 1,254

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $224K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $262K reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.