Jerry Rubin Foundation for Cancer Care

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863477976
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Monterey, CA, USA
Phone
8316424041
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$418,520
Expenses
$359,520
Assets
$269,289
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN HAUSDORFF MD (PRESIDENT)
  • VALERIA WAREHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • VALERIA WAREHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $30,769 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 foundation is formed (i) to provide financial and other assistance and support to cancer patients, including, without limitation, programs designed to meet the psychological and emotional needs of cancer patients; (ii) to provide educational programs for medical professionals with respect to the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancer; (iii) to establish community-based educational initiatives to promote the early detection of cancer and an integrated approach to cancer treatment; (iv) to provide support groups focused on cancer patients, caregivers and the bereaved, and (v) to provide such other programs as will assist cancer patients during their battle with cancer and with end of life.

What it reported doing in 2025

Jerry's place is a social model hospice home which is community supported. We provide 24-hour care for the terminally ill individuals when dying at home becomes unmanageable, or there is no home. Residents all stay for free. We are not covered by medicare, medicaid, or private insurance. We are a unique service which does not duplicate existing community resources. Our residents represented a rich and diverse community, including a pastor, educators, public servants, healthcare providers, law enforcement officers, unhoused individuals, and four u.s. Veterans, one of whom served as a green beret. Diagnoses among residents included parkinson's disease, cancer, heart disease, lewy body dementia, stroke, sepsis, and aspiration pneumonia-underscoring the breadth and complexity of those we serve. The need: many of those we serve face a lack of family or caregiver support, inability to afford in-home hospice, hospital discharge with no safe place to go, and emotional distress from isolation and uncertainty. Jerry's place is the only social-model hospice home in the region, filling a critical gap for those with nowhere else to turn.patients and residents served at jerry's place: -total residents served this year: 21 -total residents served since inception: 50 -average length of stay: 30.8 days -housing support (rent for jerry's place): $192,000

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 50.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 52.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 54.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $341K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.