The Unity Care Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770323115
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4089719822
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,162,288
- Expenses
- $12,153,680
- Assets
- $12,424,801
- Liabilities
- $9,550,153
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY WOODLAND (PREVIOUS CEO)
- CHRIS JOHNSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDRE CHAPMAN (FOUNDER): $209,000 total reported compensation
- SANDERS TRENT (VP OF OPERATIONS): $143,182 total reported compensation
- LARRY WOODLAND (PREVIOUS CEO): $142,564 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 transform the lives of young people in and emerging from foster care or homelessness by providing stable housing, caring connections and life skills that build a foundation to achieve their potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transitional housing programs - nurturing home environments that representa healthy neighborhood household. Our homes are located in vibrant middle-classcommunities to ensure a welcome and safe environment.transitional housing program nmd - a safe and healthy home environment for young adults, ages 18-24, who are required to leave foster care because they reach legaladulthood and as a result become homeless.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 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: 0.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $209K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $143K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.