Arkansas Hospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710713134
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- North Little Rock, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5017483341
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,659,986
- Expenses
- $44,834,066
- Assets
- $46,729,625
- Liabilities
- $8,901,016
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE T JONES (VICE PRESIDENT & CFO)
- ANITA DEAL (VICE PRESIDENT & CCO)
- DR BRIAN W BELL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- KIM KIRKMAN (VICE PRESIDENT & CPO)
- JAMES HOLLOWAY (VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS)
Highest reported compensation
- DR BRIAN W BELL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $378,121 total reported compensation
- DAVID WYATT (MEDICAL DIRECTOR HOSPICE SERVICES): $273,879 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER BIERMAN (PHYSICIAN): $267,268 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 enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their charitable giving goals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Arkansas hospice provides care for terminally ill patients and their families as well as community and provider education on end-of-life care and advance care planning. Arkansas hospice also provides bereavement care for the family for 13 months following the patient's death and bereavement services for others experiencing loss in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.9%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.9% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $378K · 33 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $909K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.