Redwood Community Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680367894
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Ukiah, CA, US
Phone
(707) 467-2010
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,550,969
Expenses
$30,055,395
Assets
$19,671,026
Liabilities
$14,804,923

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VICTORIA KELLY (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DENISE ADDISON (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $216,818 total reported compensation
  • HEATHER ECCARIUS (CRISIS WORKER): $193,042 total reported compensation
  • BRITTANY LUCAS (CFO): $173,655 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empowering communities for long term success

What it reported doing in 2024

Family social services: our goal is to strengthen families and empower our community's most vulnerable children by building a healthy and whole community, one child and one family at a time. We believe that through staff commitment and by providing a sense of community, we will assist our youth to develop healing relationships. Rcs strives to help our children gain power in their lives, believe in themselves, and ultimately trust others enough to give and receive love.wraparound: redwood community services became the provider of wraparound services for youth and families in lake county in 2010. Wraparound is a dynamic process of planning, implementing, and coordinating services and support to improve the lives of youth and families with complex needs. The process is community based, culturally relevant, individualized, strength based, and family centered. It utilizes both informal and formal support and community resources, and always includes a plan for stepdown and transition. Xamitinl haven is an emergency shelter operated by rcs and supported by the lake county continuum of care (lccoc), lake county behavioral health, and partnering agencies, community members, and people experiencing homelessness. Xamitin haven proposes to address homelessness in lake county through a multi-faceted project designed to provide outreach, safe shelter, housing, and related services to people experiencing a housing crisis. This project serves to fill a gap in the homeless services system of care by providing a stable location for people to find shelter and access integrated homeless services and resources.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $110K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

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

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.