Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Legal name: Tenderloin Housing Clinic Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942681706
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Phone
- (415) 885-3286
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,261,477
- Expenses
- $71,480,621
- Assets
- $209,498,771
- Liabilities
- $185,436,879
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RANDY WILSON (PRESIDENT)
- RANDY SHAW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WYNNE TANG (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $259,035 total reported compensation
- RANDY SHAW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $253,835 total reported compensation
- TABITHA ALLEN (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $234,377 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) is to prevent tenant displacement, to preserve and expand San Francisco’s low cost housing stock, and to provide comprehensive legal assistance to low income tenants. THC is successful in fulfilling this mission by providing free legal services, securing SRO units through the Master Lease program, and offering comprehensive support services to our clients.
What it reported doing in 2024
Single room occupancy (sro) housingthis program provides supportive housing to homeless tenants through master lease agreements with residential hotels in san francisco, California since may 1, 1999. The organization provides comprehensive property management services for twenty-two master-leased sro hotels and the bristol hotel. The organization's property management department manages tenants' leases and compliance with hotel leases and ensures the sanitation, safety, upkeep and code compliance of the hotels. The organization offers voluntary comprehensive support services to tenants residing in these hotels. The support services offered by the organization help residents maintain housing, enrich their self-respect, confidence and awareness, improve quality of life, minimize and/or resolve issues that may jeopardize their housing, build a strong sense of community and access information about other helpful services. The sro hotels' operating expenses, including lease payments, are funded by a combination of rent collections and service contracts with hsh, coc, and vash.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $3,987.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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; 77th 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: 5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $64.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $259K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.7M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.