Raizes

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884242133
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Holtville, CA, USA
Phone
7605542204
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$303,165
Expenses
$360,858
Assets
$8,972
Liabilities
$53,200

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Vivian E Perez (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Vivian E Perez (CEO): $59,087 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educating the public on preventative health measures such as eating healthy food, caution on using chemicals, pesticides, methods to reduce asthma triggers. The educating of individuals will help a better understanding about their own wellbeing and health through educating individuals in the community, which will help improve their health.

What it reported doing in 2025

Raizes has achieved significant milestones in serving our communities through various programs, services, resources, and advocacy efforts. We have played a crucial role in educating the public about healthcare awareness, emphasizing the importance of environmental health, and promoting equitable access to education, training, and job opportunities. Additionally, our initiatives have focused on fostering an understanding and appreciation of diversity and differences among community members.Raizes Blooming Community Health Workers CHW Certification Program and Waste to Green intitiative align with the organizations mission to improve health equity, workforce development, and community well-being in underserved community. The Blooming CHW Program prepares community members for careers in health and social services through culturally responsive training and education, while Waste to Green promotes enviormental sustainability, climate resilence and economic opportunity through workforce traiining and community engagement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • 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: 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.93; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 104.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 90.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $321K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.