Ruth Sembrano Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
854142619
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Colorado Spgs, CO, USA
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$52,557
Expenses
$52,005
Assets
$12,294

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joshua Sembrano (President)

People named in this filing

  • Joshua Sembrano (President)
  • Marie Anton (Education Advisor and Liason)
  • Morgan Fadel (CFO)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The Ruth Sembrano Foundation empowers Filipino youth by creating opportunities in education and healthcare to help them lead their communities toward a brighter future together.

What it reported doing in 2025

The right to health for all people means that everyone should have access to the health services they need when and where they need them without suffering financial hardship says World Health Organization WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Healthy communities are crucial to sustaining development and reducing many existing inequalities. With good healthcare people are able to pursue opportunities for self-improvement and live long happy lives. However quality healthcare remains unavailable to a significant number of people. WHO estimates that at least 400 million people globally lack access to basic healthcare with a staggering 1.6 billion people living in fragile settings where weak national capacity coupled with protracted crises present a significant challenge to accessing the health services they need. This holds true for the Philippines where people have very limited access to medical care.Challenges to accessibility are systemic and include issues like the lack of resources poor capacity in existing facilities and lack of medical personnel. The country had a 1:1,100 hospital bed to population ratio prior to COVID-19. There is a significant shortage of health personnel with a doctor to patient ratio of 1:33,000. This is an alarming number given that the WHO recommendation is at 1:1,000 for doctor to population ratio. With over 65% of hospitals in the country being private entities low-income individuals are put at an even greater disadvantage. Additionally only 47% of barangays smallest administrative unit in the country had a designated public healthcare facility. The COVID-19 pandemic has put further strain on an already fragile healthcare system with hospitals unable to keep up with the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the country. This has made it even more difficult for Filipinos to access the medical care they need.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.