Micahs Hugs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871150505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA, USA
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,633
- Expenses
- $61,176
- Assets
- $128,804
- Liabilities
- $3,490
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Micah Sawyer (President)
- Tom Pendleton (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Micah Sawyer (President)
- Michelle Sawyer (Secretary)
- Tom Pendleton (Vice 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prevent overdose deaths through harm reduction overdose education recovery support scholarships and community outreach while supporting individuals and families affected by substance use disorder.
What it reported doing in 2025
Harm Reduction & Overdose Prevention - Distributed more than 15,000 doses of naloxone and other harm reduction supplies throughout Sonoma County. Provided overdose prevention education and training to schools businesses public agencies and community organizations while expanding access to lifesaving resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.6%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 33
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.6% of revenue deployed · 33.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.