Sonrisas Dental Health Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943390196
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Mateo, CA, USA
Phone
6506976900
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,168,630
Expenses
$6,354,606
Assets
$4,756,046
Liabilities
$665,548

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TRACEY FECHER (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • TRACEY FECHER (CEO): $240,513 total reported compensation
  • BONIE L JUE (COMMUNITY OUTREACH DIRECTOR): $236,926 total reported compensation
  • TORREY ROTHSTEIN (Director): $221,449 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Sonrisas dental health, inc is a non-profit dental center dedicated to providing access to quality dental care and oral health education to our community. We serve individuals of all ages, including those who experience economic, physical or developmental challenges. We provide these services with dignity, respect, and compassion. We offer two convenient locations in half moon bay and san mateo.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sonrisas dental health's access to care program makes dental care accessible to individuals at all income levels in san mateo county. The access to care program includes our: affordable scale plan, geriatric dentistry, disease prevention programs, dental screening, and mobile dental care. We screen, educate, and treat adults, including farmworkers, seniors, children, and patients of all ages with special needs and mobility considerations. The goal of our access to care program is to become the dental home for each patient seen at our dental centers, which we define as seeing a patient at least twice per year, with the outcome of improving our patients oral health and helping them to maintain that improvement over time. With a goal of equitable access and optimizing outcomes, sdh seeks to meet the unique needs of specific patient populations who are most at-risk: low-income individuals, children, seniors, and people with disabilities or other special needs. In response to the needs of our patients, sdh offers an affordable sliding payment scale plan, provides services at various locations, including through our mobile unit, offers sedation dentistry to meet the needs of patients with special needs or increased anxiety after much-delayed dental care, and employs pediatric specialist dentists alongside our general dentists.

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 11 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.