Roots of Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264540518
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
7189245886
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Human Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$357,126
Expenses
$204,601
Assets
$609,941
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Isabel de Bruin Cardoso (President)
  • Sabrina Hermosilla (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Susan Evangelista (Secretary)
  • Keefe Murren (Member)
  • David Callan (Treasurer)

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

Roots of Health supports a community-led sexual and reproductive health organization based in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. For more than 16 years, the organization has expanded access to evidence-based, rights-based SRHR education and services for women, girls, young people, and marginalized communities in one of the country's most underserved provinces. Since 2009, it has reached more than 171,000 individuals with comprehensive sexuality education, modern contraception, and integrated SRHR care, contributing to a 60% reduction in teen pregnancy in Palawan since 2017. The organization also leads community-driven HIV prevention and response initiatives, including testing, counseling, PrEP distribution, youth-led outreach, and linkage to care for vulnerable populations facing stigma and barriers to treatment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Systems Strengthening work includes all programs and activities carried out in order to improve the capacity of local government counterparts. This includes trainings for government health workers and nurses and midwives, helping local chief executives to plan responses to the issues of teen pregnancy and HIV, training teachers and principals on how to teach students in their schools about comprehensive sexuality education, and training for people to become certified in community based screening for HIV.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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

STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.5%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $105.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Limited
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Limited
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 42.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.98; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.5% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $200K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.