Seacrest Village Retirement Communities
Legal name: San Diego Hebrew Homes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951455284
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Encinitas, CA, United States
- Phone
- (760) 632-0081
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,189,158
- Expenses
- $26,016,149
- Assets
- $49,510,260
- Liabilities
- $11,898,451
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARL MEASER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- PAM FERRIS (PRESIDENT/CEO, RETIRED)
Highest reported compensation
- CARL MEASER (PRESIDENT/CEO): $333,009 total reported compensation
- PAM FERRIS (PRESIDENT/CEO, RETIRED): $322,877 total reported compensation
- BRADLEY BLOSE (CFO): $241,207 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Seacrest Village Retirement Communities are a vibrant non-profit, 501(c)(3) San Diego senior living and healthcare organization in Encinitas, California. Known for our caring and nurturing environment, we’ve been serving the ever-growing San Diego community in the Jewish tradition since 1944. Seacrest Village caters to over 250 residents daily through an array of active programs and a growing list of services, embracing their changing needs every step of the way. Through comprehensive and progressive care options and personalized delivery systems –– with our foremost priority being the highest possible quality of care –– we encourage and support a life of dignity and spirituality. Our commun.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides free and reduced-fee care and housing to qualified residents. Charity is provided throughout all levels of care offered by san diego hebrew homes. Charitable care is measured based on direct and indirect costs. The total cost of charitable care provided was approximately $2,748,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $333K · 23 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.