The ReCARES Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943213876
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$196,772
Expenses
$72,583
Assets
$313,257
Liabilities
$175

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Liisa Nenonen (President)

People named in this filing

  • Liisa Nenonen (President)
  • Linda Landucci (Treasurer)
  • Norman Torello (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The primary purpose of The ReCARES Network ReCARES is to prevent the waste of valuable durable medical equipment DME and home healthcare supplies by distributing these items for reuse by others particularly the underserved within our local communities and keeping these items out of landfills. This has remained ReCARES main purpose over its 30 years of operation.

What it reported doing in 2025

At its sites in Oakland San Francisco and Marin ReCARES collects donations of usable durable medical equipment DME and home healthcare supplies and then redistributes these free of charge to those in need. The volume of our services continued to grow in 2025. We collected over 45,000 items from approximately 4,700 donors. These items were redistributed to more than 11,000 recipients including seniors and people with disabilities. Our dedicated volunteers donated over 5,400 hours of service to achieve these results. ReCARES provides a safety net for people who are unable to get needed DME eg. walkers wheelchairs. Proper DME helps enable recipients to stay in their homes after illness or injury fostering their physical and mental health and allowing them to participate more actively in their communities. ReCARES also expanded collaboration with other agencies in 2025 providing needed items and referrals and helping to build a community of like-minded organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.6%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 63.1%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.32; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.6% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.