Martha's Village and Kitchen Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330777892
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Indio, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7603474741
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,425,455
- Expenses
- $12,428,129
- Assets
- $14,690,853
- Liabilities
- $5,921,467
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAM HOLLENBECK (PRESIDENT & CEO (FORMER))
- MIKI JORDAN (CEO (CURRENT))
- JONATHAN ESPY (BOARD PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN)
Highest reported compensation
- ROSA E VERDUZCO (COO): $120,475 total reported compensation
- SAM HOLLENBECK (PRESIDENT & CEO (FORMER)): $112,222 total reported compensation
- ESPERANZA ORTIZ (V.P. OF PROGRAMS): $108,459 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transforming the lives of the impoverished and homeless.
What it reported doing in 2025
Housing and food programs: the organization delivers comprehensive housing and nutrition services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness through shelters in indio and palm springs, serving 806 unduplicated participants. These programs provide safe, stable housing paired with intensive, unduplicated participants. These programs provide safe, stable housing paired with intensive, evidence-based wraparound support services designed to promote long-term self-sufficiency. During the year, the organization served approximately 289,423 nutritious meals to both sheltered and unsheltered community members, addressing critical food insecurity. By meeting immediate basic needs such as food and shelter, participants are better positioned to engage in case, management, develop life skills, and secure permanent housing. Program outcomes demonstrate strong effectiveness, with 98% of the 331 individuals who exited the program not returning to homelessness, highlighting the organizations lasting impact on community stability and overall wellbeing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
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: 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.