Trecs Institute
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The TRECS Institute is dedicated to serving as a catalyst to bring about positive change in the care of our nation's seniors. Through operational research, TRECS seeks to find ways to improve care for seniors in any location while saving money for our health care system.
- Income
- $165,706
- Spending
- $154,052
- Reserves
- 0.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Highest pay
- $18,000, director of res
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. 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 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. 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 (1)
- $102,634 spent. The TRECS Institute conducted a detailed study on the ability of telehealth services, used in skilled nursing facilities, to reduce the number of unnecessary and avoidable nursing home to hospital admissions by replacing the current industry standard of using phone medicine to diagnose and create treatment plans for nursing facility residents who have a change in their medical condition. Phone medicine is obsolete because it fails to give a physician the level of detail needed to effectively differentiate those residents that truly need to be admitted to the hospital from those that can and should remain and be treated in the nursing facility. In addition, given the high number of law suits that originate in the long term care industry, physicians are appropriately worried about not admitting a resident if they can not, with certainty, rule out the potential for a major medical issue. Using phone medicine, physicians are most often unable to rule out those concerns so they admit their residents to the local hospital. Studies have shown that 40% to 60% of current hospital admissions of nursing facility residents, when viewed in retrospect, had no justifiable medical condition to warrant their admission. Telemedicine allows the physician to make a virtual bedside visit and conduct a detailed evaluation of the resident's condition and in many cases, clearly differentiate those residents that truly require acute care admission from those that can and should remain and be treated in the SNF. Savings available to Medicare by using telemedicine is over a billion dollars per year!
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. 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)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2021 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on May 15, 2021.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
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 April 2023.
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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