David's House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222593431
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lebanon, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6036432298
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,205,736
- Expenses
- $1,007,957
- Assets
- $17,916,662
- Liabilities
- $57,039
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSIE FARNHAM (PRESIDENT)
- ASTRID BRADISH-HOYT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DON DUTTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DON DUTTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $158,265 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a home away from home and support for families with children receiving treatment through the children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center.
What it reported doing in 2024
David's house opened in 1986 in memory of david cyr, who passed away from leukemia at age five. We provide a home-away-from-home and support for up to 20 families at one time with children receiving treatment at children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center (chad) in lebanon, nh. Chad is New Hampshire's only comprehensive, full-service children's hospital, and david's house is the only hospitality house in the state serving the needs of families with children being treated there. Since opening, we have provided overnight accommodations for 17,188 families from 42 states, 2 us territories, and 29 countries. Thousands more have utilized the house on a day guest basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.8%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.78; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.8% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $652K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.