Santa Barbara County Medical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
952234795
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Phone
8056835333
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$343,469
Expenses
$256,331
Assets
$1,213,787
Liabilities
$139,128

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TODD ENGSTROM MD (PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTOPHER QUIJANO DO (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • DOUGLAS MURPHY MD (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • DANA GOBA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • DANA GOBA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $96,756 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The purpose of the association is to protect and improve public health, advocate for the medical profession, participate in and support the California medical association and to foster collegiality.

What it reported doing in 2025

Through its programs, the sbcms/ccma primarily offers educational services to its physician members. Some of these programs include continuing medical education courses, physician office practicesworkshops and seminars. A membership directory is published every two years with information about all the association's members. General membership meetings are held annually to provide educational speakers and subjects relevant to the membership.a physican referral service is provided as a community service to assist local residents with general health care information and with information about physicians' training and medical backgrounds as they seek to find a physician to provide services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.4%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.74; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.