Share Ourselves

Legal name: Share Our Selves Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953222316
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Phone
(949) 270-2100
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,558,566
Expenses
$29,098,232
Assets
$28,461,059
Liabilities
$20,422,941

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTY E WARD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTY E WARD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $409,532 total reported compensation
  • DANA GER TERM 0325 (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $290,144 total reported compensation
  • NAZANIN SANAEI (LEAD PHYSICIAN): $269,324 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Share Our Selves provides comprehensive healthcare and social services to individuals and families in Orange County, addressing the full spectrum of what it means to be healthy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Clinics: annually sos provides care to approximately 12,000 unduplicated patients accounting for over 38,200 patient visits. Sos provides comprehensive healthcare including a full program of primary, specialty, sub-specialty, dental, integrated behavioral health and complements its outpatient care with hospitalist inpatient follow-ups, treatment adherence education, clinical case management, disease management, counseling, education, and testing. Sos offers onsite lab, nutrition and dispensary services comprehensive quality healthcare is provided at three clinical sites located in costa mesa, santa ana, and lake forest. Sos is designated as a friendly qualified health center (fqhc). Fqhsa are community based health centers that provide high quality, comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health services to the orange county community. The clinic also secured designation as health care for the homeless ("hch") program, section 330(h) of the public health service act. The purpose of the hch is to improve the status and outcome of care for homeless individuals and families by improving access to primary care and substance abuse services.

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 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

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: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $410K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $178K reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.