Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134343743
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Mason, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5135360314
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Psychiatric Hospitals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,200,473
- Expenses
- $31,387,773
- Assets
- $160,057,335
- Liabilities
- $-32,776,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Groat PhD (President and CEO - Term start 9/1/2024)
- PAUL CROSBY MD MBA (President and CEO - term ended 9/1/24)
- PAUL E Keck Jr MD (Former President and CEO / Current Psychiatrist-In-Chief)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL CROSBY MD MBA (President and CEO - term ended 9/1/24): $593,538 total reported compensation
- PAUL E Keck Jr MD (Former President and CEO / Current Psychiatrist-In-Chief): $554,321 total reported compensation
- DANIELLE JOHNSON MD (Chief Medical Officer): $410,799 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. The patients and their families are at the center of our treatment, education, and research. Lcoh offers comprehensive services including inpatient, residential and outpatient services. Lcoh has 32 inpatient beds, 28 residential beds and provides a range of outpatient services including office visits, telehealth visits, php, iop, ect, esketamine and tms.
What it reported doing in 2024
Acute inpatient care: for adult patients needing the highest level of care and crisis intervention delivered with compassion and respect, lindner center of hope (lcoh) has 32 private rooms divided into two 16-room units for acute hospital stays. After a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation is completed to gain a thorough understanding of the specific needs of each patient, inpatient treatment focuses on quickly resolving serious and life-threatening symptoms. Adult partial hospitalization: the adult partial hospitalization program keeps patients, who meet program criteria, out of the hospital, while providing intensive treatment in a safe setting. Lcoh is committed to providing the full spectrum of care for children, adolescents, and adults suffering with mental illness. When an individual's daily functioning is impaired by mental illness, yet criteria are not met for hospitalization, the adolescent and adult partial hospitalization programs (php) provide intensive treatment in a safe and therapeutic environment, without full hospitalization. Partial hospitalization helps patients progress to the point where standard outpatient appointments can be effective. These programs are also used as a step-down program from hospitalization, with the intent of gradually easing a patient back into their home environment. The program operates monday through friday from 8:30 a.m. To 3:30 p.m. Except for eating disorder patients who attend until 6:00 p.m., and enrollees attend 5 days per week for up to 4 weeks. The program offers some flexibility in design, so that the php treatment team and the enrollee can work together to create the right treatment plan for everyone. Transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy: major depression is a debilitating brain disorder that affects one in 10 adults. It is caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain that result in a persistent state of sadness and loss of interest in or pleasure from normal activities. Individuals that have tried medications and psychotherapy to relieve their symptoms with little or no success, often give up hope. The innovation of transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) can improve symptoms and give hope to those struggling to live their lives. Nationally recognized as experts in the treatment of depression, lcoh psychiatrists offer tms as an innovative treatment modality that delivers positive results to patients coping with mental illness. Tms is a non-systemic and non-invasive treatment for depression that received the prestigious popular science award best of what's new in 2009. Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is a safe and effective treatment option for certain mental illnesses and is the gold standard for treatment of certain psychiatric disorders, causing changes in brain chemistry that can immediately reverse symptoms. As one of the oldest and most widely used mental health procedures, often, ect works when other treatments are unsuccessful. Ect is an extremely effective form of treatment, often safer and more effective than medications or no treatment at all. Lcoh is the leading provider of ect in the area. The center's ect expert providers and a caring staff perform the procedure in the state-of-the-art farmer family neuromodulation center with the latest technology and equipment. Treatment appointments can be scheduled monday, wednesday, thursday, and friday, 7:00 a.m. To 1:00 p.m., with new patients starting the process through intake or while in our hospital. Lcoh women's mental health program: some mental health concerns are unique to women, especially as they relate to a woman's reproductive life cycle. This cycle is naturally filled with highs and lows that are linked to physical changes, hormonal fluctuations, life-altering events - often equally joyous, sad, and stressful. Sometimes it can be hard to know when a mood or behavior is more than a normal reaction to physiological change or stress. The women's mental health program at lcoh strives to promote and enh
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.5%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 56.8%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th 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: 27.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.1; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.5% of revenue deployed · 56.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $594K · 25 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.9M reported
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 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: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.