Baywell Health
Legal name: The West Oakland Health Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941667294
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, US
- Phone
- +1 (510) 835-9610
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,794,919
- Expenses
- $30,429,712
- Assets
- $5,475,160
- Liabilities
- $12,471,745
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT PHILLIPS (CEO)
- CAROL BURTON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELEANOR HALEY (CHIEF DENTAL): $414,437 total reported compensation
- ROBERT PHILLIPS (CEO): $395,160 total reported compensation
- ADRIAN JAMES (MD): $355,142 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 provide high-quality, culturally competent healthcare that feels like home and advocates for the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
West oakland health council (wohc) is a federally qualified health center that provides quality medical, dental, behavioral, and other related services to the underserved in west oakland and east oakland. Each of the clinic's health centers strives to be a hub for health, compassion, engagement, and inspiration. Wohc has a special focus on african american health and wellness and offers services for both insured and underinsured individuals which includes a sliding fee discount program for those who qualify. Wohc had 31,216 medical and 1,979 mental health visits during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $132.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.28; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $414K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.