County Health Executives Association of California
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What it says it does
CHEAC promotes, protects, and works to improve the health of California's population. CHEAC's objective is to maximize local health departments' financial, organizational, and programmatic capacity to deliver local health services.
- Income
- $2.4 million
- Spending
- $2.2 million
- Employees
- 7
- Volunteers
- 11
- Highest pay
- $422,763, executive dir.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $664,532 spent. Held general membership and small county committee meeting, as well as legislative committee meetings all throughout the year.
- $606,246 spent. Provided various member services including, but not limited to, weekly digests of public health and legislative news, trainings, resources in key policy areas such as CalAIM, maternal, child, and adolescent health, CLPPB, California Children's Services, public health funding, and public health information technology, and other information available on our website.
- $534,029 spent. Advocated for ongoing and one-time investments in public health workforce and infrastructure, funding for California Confidential Network for Contact Tracing (CalCONNECT), and for a delay in implementation of the Department of Health Care Services' new California Children's Services (CCS) monitoring initiative until CCS programs are adequately funded. Also advocated for seamless transitions impacting children and perinatal populations.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since July 1992.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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