Peten Health
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815408198
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Windsor, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7077915974
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400,208
- Expenses
- $117,428
- Assets
- $818,715
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kate Feibusch (President)
People named in this filing
- Kate Feibusch (President)
- Kathy Cirksena (Secretary)
- Kelly Pfeifer (Director)
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
Peten Health trains and supports community health workers CHWs in the most remote rural villages of Peten Guatemala. By providing education mentoring and resources we ensure that community members can provide quality affordable culturally-sensitive health care to their neighbors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supported Community Health Workers CHWs in rural Guatemala serving a population of approximately 60,000. Program activities enabled over 8,000 patient visits. Expenses include salaries operations and medical supplies and equipment. Provided oral health education toothbrush distribution and twice-yearly fluoride applications to approximately 3,000 elementary students in 19 rural villages. Supported dedicated diabetes services in 6 villages. Conducted two surgical screening campaigns identifying 44 cases and facilitating access to surgical care through patient accompaniment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.2%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $239.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- 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: 25%; rating input score 25; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 70.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.97; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.2% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.