Catholic Health Services
Legal name: Catholic Hospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650062530
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami Lakes, FL, USA
- Phone
- (786) 207-3700
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospices
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,862,552
- Expenses
- $86,210,498
- Assets
- $48,754,511
- Liabilities
- $20,204,973
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY JO FRICK (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- DIAN BACKOFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DIANA SMITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ARISTIDES PALLIN (FORMER PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY JO FRICK (PRESIDENT/CEO): $510,978 total reported compensation
- DR BRIAN KIEDROWSKI (CMO): $456,959 total reported compensation
- DIAN BACKOFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $414,494 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Catholic Health Services serves more than 7,500 people daily with love, skill, compassion and respect for all human dignity — regardless of race, creed or religious affiliation. A patient has the right to know what patient support services are available, including whether an interpreter is available if he or she does not speak English. A patient has the right to know what rules and regulations apply to his or her conduct. A patient has the right to be given by the health care provider information concerning diagnosis, planned course of treatment, alternatives, risks, and prognosis. In order to continue to provide health care and services to the poor, sick and vulnerable in our community, we need to reinforce our healing ministry with your gifts and donations. The funds we seek will go directly to offset the cost of providing care to those individuals who have no resources. For...
What it reported doing in 2024
In the year ended september 30, 2025, catholic hospice provided more than 368,636 days of care to 9,995 patients. 7,276 individuals were referred to our service, and 3,861 new patients started receiving care during the year. Catholic hospice attended the deaths of 3,500 individual patients during the year. Bereavement services were available for families for twelve months after a patient's passing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $511K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 14 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.