Chrysalis House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611012290
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lexington, KY, USA
Phone
8599772501
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,436,235
Expenses
$5,540,254
Assets
$6,927,791
Liabilities
$294,627

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LILLIE RUSCHELL (PRESIDENT)
  • DANIELLE SANDERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KAMA ORR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KAMA ORR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $206,916 total reported compensation
  • CALEB PATE (DIRECTOR OF INTEGRATED CARE): $111,357 total reported compensation
  • CONNIE NEAL (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR): $100,266 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of chrysalis house inc. Is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.

What it reported doing in 2024

Chrysalis house is a behavioral health service organization (bhso) licensed as an aode by the commonwealth of Kentucky to provide residential substance use disorder treatment, intensive outpatient, and outpatient services for women at the following locations:1588 hill rise drive, lexington ky 40504 - 16 residential beds for pregnant or parenting, adult women with substance use disorder. Children under the age of 2 may reside full-time with their mothers; older children may visit on weekends. 1382 bull lea road, lexington, ky 40511 - 16 residential beds for pregnant or parenting, adult women with substance use disorder. Children under the age of 2 may reside full-time with their mothers; older children may visit on weekends.1374 bull lea road, lexington, ky 40511- 16 residential beds for pregnant or parenting, adult women with substance use disorders. Children under the age of 2 may reside full-time with their mother; older children may visit on weekends. Chrysalis house residential programs are accredited by carf and have received asam certification for levels of care 3.5 and 3.1. Community support services at chrysalis community center are those that extend beyond residential treatment. The availability of these services helps ensure that treatment can be sustained in long-term recovery. Chrysalis house believes ongoing recovery and community support is essential for women with substance use disorders to make the changes necessary to adopt an alcohol- and drug-free lifestyle. Chrysalis house staff assist women develop recovery support networks, relapse prevention tools, and housing and community services. Participation in alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, al-anon, and other recovery support networks is a valuable resource for many recovering women. Relapse prevention and continuing care are recovery management services.community support services extending beyond treatment include the following:1. Family strengthening - recognizing the family disruption that is common to addiction, women, particularly those who are heads of their households, need services that support the reestablishment of important family ties, chrysalis house offers family therapy and family support services.2. Transportation - chrysalis house provides clients with transportation in business vans, bus passes, and gas cards to those clients in residential treatment. For long term community support, case managers provide them with assistance navigating public transportation systems.3. Employer support services - employers coordinate needed job support services with the chrysalis house job readiness coordinator. Chrysalis house can bond women to put less risk on the employer should they hire a woman in recovery.4. Vocational and academic education services - critical to recovery success is the continuation of educational (for women and children) and vocational services that are begun during treatment at chrysalis house. Chrysalis house offers each client employment and education opportunities including instruction for the general equivalency diploma (ged), job skills training, basic and advanced computer training and job placement assistance.5. Chrysalis house offers weekly family education day events where family members can get involved in understanding their roles in the family and how those roles may have become maladaptive coping strategies while the person served was in active addiction. The education days are also meant to provide basic education about substance misuse, drugs of abuse, and concepts of recovery.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $207K · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $260K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.