Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.
- Income
- $22.1 million
- Spending
- $24.2 million
- Spent on programs
- 88%
- Reserves
- 1.3 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- government grants, 81%
- Employees
- 229
- Volunteers
- 10
- Highest pay
- $289,277, ceo
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 49 out of 100. Higher than 15% of charities in its peer group (diseases, $10m to $100m).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 1.3 months of spending.
Debt
5 of 20It owes 60% of what it owns.
Living within its means
4 of 15Spending exceeded income by 9% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 39% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1588% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 35% of charities in its peer group (diseases, $10m to $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2511 of 11 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2025, 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 (4)
- $7.6 million spent. Primary Care clinic, FQHC. San Francisco Community Health Center has been a federally qualified health ceneter since 2015. The Wellness Center provides culturally competent primary and mental health care at highest qualityto low-income resident, the LGBTQ with Transgender individuals in particular. The Wellness Center cares for refugees, immigrants, and communities of color who are homeless and ay experience homelessness in the Tenderloing Neighborhood of an Francisco. SFCHC operated a free clinic from 2010 through its FQHC designation in 2015. SFCHC operates primary dental preventatative care at its facility located 1800 Market Street, within 2 mile radius. An expanded Substance Use Disorder service is provided at its 730 Polk Street and Marker Street facilities. Our fully-integrated, whole-person health care approach are compassionate and humanizing. Regardless of their situation, our patients reveive the highest quality of care. Our Community Engagement programs are fully integrated and wrap-around the needs of our patients and clientele. 392 total community workgroups connected, supported, and 35,106 meals were served. In FYE 2025, 4,355 unique patients were cared which generated 21,427 clinical encounters.
- $6.8 million spent. Any Other Programs - HIV Education and Services, predominatly Ryan White Parts funded connected 342 groups, served 12,500 meals to clientele. Our Transformational Capacity Building Assistance [CBA] programs offered much needed services through Empower HER, LGBTQ Health Equity Initiative and the San Francisco Transgender Alliance for Health Resources [STAHR] are sunsetting due to lack of government and private fuding. Health Policy works provides a platform for SFCHC to challenge discriminatory practices, promote inclusive healthcare systems, address structural inequities around housing access to health care, and systemic racism.Asian and Paicific Islander Wellness Center Community Engagement and Integrated Services is a wrap-around approach in delivering a fully-integrated and whole person care. We cannot address more acute health care needs if they have not eaten anything that day. Through our Community Living Room program, 35,106 meals were served. Emphasis on nelonging through community-based programming. Our Community Living Room is ahub for people experiencing homelessness. The space is run by community ambassadors who are hired and trained directly from the community. These are individuals who were or are experiencing homelessness, substance users and now in recovery, former and active sex workers, and immigrants. Community Ambassadors are also San Franciscto and tenderloin residents who grew up, live and work in the area. 392 community engagement/groups were coordinated and hosted in our Community Living Room.
- $4.3 million spent. The Taimon Booton Navigation Center [TBNC], a shelter program launched in Fall 2023, is a service center and sheletr for transgender, non-confirming and intersex people, as well as cisgender women, to find santuary, community, and a pathway to housing. TBNC offers beds, meals, showers, laundry facilities, medical, services, case management, recreational activities and belongingness. At its first year as a fully operational shelter, provided 75 beds. The shelter is run by 40 paid staff and is open 24/7.
- $2.5 million spent. Trans Services-LGBTQ - SFCHC operates a TRANS Thrive, A 4-day per week drop in center for the transgender community, providing clients with food, clothing, computer litecary and access, art and literary classes, and social support while providing a direct referral to health center. Amid unprecedented attacks on the national level, TRANS Thrive served 1700 transgeneder women this year, representing 65% of all transgender women in San Francisco.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2025, 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 October 13, 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 November 6, 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 October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending March 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 1994.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 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 November 4, 2026.
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