Artman
Legal name: Artman Lutheran Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231401548
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ambler, PA, United States
- Phone
- 215-643-6333
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,542,214
- Expenses
- $23,965,930
- Assets
- $58,940,954
- Liabilities
- $22,765,293
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LUANNE FISHER (CEO/PRESIDENTUNTIL11/25)
- DANA O'DONNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LUANNE FISHER (CEO/PRESIDENTUNTIL11/25): $713,396 total reported compensation
- JOHN M BARNUM (CFO/SVP THROUGH 10/25): $434,915 total reported compensation
- JOAN MYERS (SENIOR VP/COO): $372,537 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Artman, the secret ingredient is our dedicated staff. For nearly 100 years, Artman has recognized and supported the unique physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of older adults, helping residents achieve their highest potential through full-time, full-service compassion and care. At Artman, we are dedicated to our mission to faithfully empower and serve our residents by offering rewarding and meaningful events and experiences. We are committed to improving lives through our Liberty Lifestyles program that embraces the Mind, Body, and Spirit. Six Dimensions of Wellness Monthly event calendars are created based upon the comprehensive Six 6 Dimensions of Wellness. This framework allows Artman to offer a wide range of activities, events, classes, and program offerings on a daily basis.
What it reported doing in 2024
Artman is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) senior living community located in ambler, Pennsylvania that provides accommodations and services for personal care, memory care, short-term rehabilitation, and long-term skilled nursing care. Artman is home to a community wellness center, the becoming center, which empowers older adults with programs that encourage healthy lifestyles. The community is renowned within the senior care industry, and through the greater philadelphia area for the high level of compassionate care it provides its residents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.46; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $713K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.