Care Guide Partners Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464113285
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Louisville, KY, USA
Phone
5024566200
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Home Health Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,133,314
Expenses
$10,854,666
Assets
$5,603,634
Liabilities
$25,915,543

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID W COOK (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • BETHANY SNIDER (SR VICE PRESIDENT/CMO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID W COOK (PRESIDENT/CEO): $643,630 total reported compensation
  • BETHANY SNIDER (SR VICE PRESIDENT/CMO): $480,483 total reported compensation
  • LYNN K FIELDHOUSE (SR VP/ CHEIF LEGAL OFFICER): $447,739 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Care guide partners, inc. Is a non-profit organization whose express purpose is to develop care models for individuals with chronic and advanced illnesses who need medical and psychosocial assistance in their homes, workplace or other locations designated by the individual. Care guide partners, inc. Provided adult and pediatric palliative care in thirty-five counties in Kentucky and provided pediatric care in ten counties in Indiana.

What it reported doing in 2024

Adult palliative care: palliative care is provided by a team of specialists who work together with the patient's other healthcare providers to offer an extra layer of support. The patients we see most often have multiple chronic conditions such as copd, chf, dementia, cancer, diabetes, neurologic conditions (ms, als, post-stroke) and more. We work to help define personal goals and needs to create an individualized care plan to help improve the quality of life for the patient and their family, and to help them to understand their treatments and choices. The palliative care teams make recommendations to lessen the effects of symptoms such as pain, shortness of breathe, fatigue, constipation, nauesea, loss of appetite, and difficulty sleeping. Palliative care may include specialty visits by a nurse practitioner or physician in addition to other interdisciplinary team specialists like social workers, nurses, cna's, chaplains and grief counselors. Patients receiving palliative care do not have to discontinue curative treatment for their illnesses. In 2023, we served 2,519 patients in our adult palliative care program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 65
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 60
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -111.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.62; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $644K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $145K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.