Uplift People of Elk Grove
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822485100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9162028242
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,078
- Expenses
- $75,030
- Assets
- $20,435
- Liabilities
- $511
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK HEDLUND (President & CEO)
- KATHI GOLDSBERRY (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MARK HEDLUND (President & CEO)
- CATHERINE FITHIAN (Director)
- NANCY GONZALEZ (Director)
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
Uplift People of Elk Grove is a non-profit corporation that works with people in poverty to assist them in getting themselves out of poverty and flourishing in abundant lives. Uplift People of Elk Grove is a comprehensive holistic program designed to break the cycle of poverty by building well-being together, rethinking poverty, reframing solutions, and reshaping our community. Through education and intentional relationships, we can restore abundance for families and individuals and bridge the cultural and socioeconomic class lines that often divide us. One of our primary goals is to provide a framework in which people can move off public assistance and build abundant lives. Uplift People of Elk Grove works with churches, food bank services, Sacramento County, the City of Elk Grove, the public library, and other civic organizations and community groups to improve lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
To work with people to assist them in breaking the cycle of poverty and create abundant and flourishing lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.