Seeds Christian Counseling
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872168165
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Laguna Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9492437600
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $546,735
- Expenses
- $526,722
- Assets
- $256,995
- Liabilities
- $39,718
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBECCA KINDREICH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA KINDREICH (PRESIDENT): $124,009 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide accessible, faith-based mental health services to private christian schools (k-12) by providing caring and qualified mental health therapists who can assess, diagnose and treat mental health issues. We strive to create an improved level of coordinated, psychosocial care for students and psychoeducation for teachers and families, through our partnership with k-12 schools. To do this seeds provides on-site mental health therapists who can offer immediate services, which translate to overall positive mental health outcomes such as emotional well-being and resilience for our students and families. We support the growth of mental health services in six, k-12 christian private schools throughout orange county. We also hope to expand our services to additional private schools in orange county and surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our mission is to provide accessible, faith-based mental health services to private christian schools (k-12) by providing caring and qualified mental health therapists who can assess, diagnose and treat mental health issues. We strive to create an improved level of coordinated, psychosocial care for students and psychoeducation for teachers and families, through our partnership with k-12 schools. To do this seeds provides on-site mental health therapists who can offer immediate services, which translate to overall positive mental health outcomes such as emotional well-being and resilience for our students and families. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, seeds offers individual therapy, screening, social emotional-development groups (taught during school hours), crisis intervention, resources/referrals and teacher/parent mental health education seminars in the evenings. We support the growth of mental health services in six, k-12 christian private schools throughout orange county. We also hope to expand our services to additional private schools in orange county and surrounding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $114.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $418K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.