Rams
Legal name: Richmond Area Multi-services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237389436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Phone
- (415) 800-0699
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,647,271
- Expenses
- $39,052,477
- Assets
- $23,668,104
- Liabilities
- $7,331,011
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGELA TANG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA TANG (PRESIDENT & CEO): $262,814 total reported compensation
- EDUARD AGAJANINAN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $239,015 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINA SHEA (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $203,411 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RAMS provides and advocates for mental health and wellness services that are centered in clients, community and culture, with expertise in serving Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mental health counseling/consultation services: rams has an ongoing contract with san francisco department of public health (dph)-behavioral health services (bhs) to provide mental health counseling (including peer-to-peer counseling) and psychiatric services to adults, older adults, children, youth, and families. These services are delivered at the rams outpatient clinic, san francisco human services agency (hsa), county adult assistance programs (caap), as well as community settings including youth centers and schools. Special targeted programs consist of (i) serious emotional disturbance (sed), (ii) early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment (epsdt), (iii) fu yau project - an on-site prevention and early intervention mental health services for children ages 0-5 at childcare centers, and (iv) an integrated behavioral health and consultation services at san francisco public high schools. In collaboration with the hsa and dph, rams also extends culturally competent outpatient behavioral health counseling services to participants of caap, the county's public assistance programs.rams offers clinical training programs (doctoral internship and practicum traineeship), which train graduate students to become culturally competent mental health professionals, with expertise in working with asian & pacific islander americans and other underserved populations. The interns and trainees provide services to adults and older adults and children, youth, and families as part of the bhs contract.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $176.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: -1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $34.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $263K · 18 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.3M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.