Spectrum Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382882853
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hayward, CA, US
- Phone
- 510-881-0300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,004,258
- Expenses
- $37,655,338
- Assets
- $18,467,892
- Liabilities
- $5,661,740
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSH SWANINGER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- SHARON BLAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSH SWANINGER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $381,103 total reported compensation
- SHARON BLAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $226,389 total reported compensation
- MABLE HEYN (DIRECT CARE WORKER (SEE SCH O)): $200,725 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the quality of life for older adults and residents experiencing low income in Alameda County.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adult foster care - to provide for the operation and supervision of adult foster care facilities that provide care for developmentally disabled adults.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 3.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.7% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $33.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $381K · 12 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.