Sorrel Leaf Healing Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862911017
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Eureka, CA, USA
Phone
7072677812
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,460,736
Expenses
$667,301
Assets
$11,724,865
Liabilities
$1,076,635

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • SHIREEN VARGA (Executive Dir.): $156,477 total reported compensation
  • EVAN BUXBAUM (CHAIRPERSON): $9,759 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide deeply transformative, compassionate mental health interventions, including crisis residential care, for humboldt's and the north coast's young people.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sorrel leaf healing center mobile response team provides mobile response to young people 7-18 within the community who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Sorrel leaf cares for young people in crisis from a therapeutic model that is evidence-based, strength focused, and trauma informed. Our focus in our mobile response is on crisis de-escalation, family systems stabilization, and assessment of the child's mental health challenges in order to cooperatively determine where the child's needs will be best served. We work from a focus on the inner strength and resilience that each child possesses to have come this far, and supporting the pillars of support and resilience in the young person's life that can help them move through this period of crisis. Our mobile team works to support the child through intensive de-escalation and short-term therapy, as well as the family/caregivers to assist them in helping the child through this experience. Our practitioners are non-judgemental, professional and compassionate. Request for mobile response team services will receive a response by a licensed clinician or other qualified staff member within 30 minutes of initial contact during hours of operation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 and most voting board members are independent. 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: 27
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 4.8%; rating input score 5
  • Program expense ratio: 44.6%; rating input score 45
  • Fundraising efficiency: $65.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 89.7%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.57; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 4.8% of revenue deployed · 44.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $298K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $156K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.