Sana Sana Centro De Salud Y Expresion

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333226891
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,866
Expenses
$84,518
Assets
$58,255
Liabilities
$7,907

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nathan Roter (Co-executive director)
  • Andrea Gonzalez (Co-executive director)

People named in this filing

  • Nathan Roter (Co-executive director)
  • Andrea Gonzalez (Co-executive director)
  • Ramon Valdez (Board Chair)

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

Sana Sana Centro de Salud y Expresin builds mental health and cultural healing infrastructure for immigrant communities through direct services and accessible cultural programming. We create healing spaces where youth and families thrive through mental health support music and cultural expression expanding access to critical resources and fostering connection and community care.

What it reported doing in 2025

MigrARTE provides expressive arts music and cultural preservation programming for immigrant youth and families recognizing joy creativity and cultural continuity as essential components of healing under conditions of violence against immigrants. MigrARTE programs are embedded within community spaces and immigrant-serving organizations and serve as both healing environments and entry points into broader support systems. MigrARTE activities include free expressive arts and music workshops youth music cohorts using local approaches to bring music to communities where the cost of instruments is initially prohibitive. MigrARTE facilitates spaces where participants can contextualize the unique stressors immigrant communities face-family separation fear of enforcement isolation cultural loss-through creative expression. In 2025 we hosted 3 arts workshops and served XX community members through our arts programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 33
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.2%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 43

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.2% of revenue deployed · 43.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.