Dunes Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824588840
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Valparaiso, IN, USA
Phone
3126261600
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,892
Expenses
$65,043
Assets
$149,162
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Steven Dobben (President)
  • Wendy Warner (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Steven Dobben (President)
  • Wendy Warner (Vice President)
  • Victoria Ubben (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dunes foundation inc is organized to provide charitable aid through the provision of spiritual, emotional, and physical care to terminally ill individuals during their end-of-life-journey.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide charitable aid through the provision of spiritual, emotional, and physical care to terminally ill individuals during their end-of-life-journey. Donating to the organization contributes to the following: dunes dreams: making dreams come true during the end-of-life journey is a high priority for dunes hospice. We encourage patients and families to fulfill dreams to enhance life's experiences even during the end-of-life journey. Dunes hospice has granted patients and their families dreams such as a trip to disney world, a cruise on lake Michigan, and a family fun pool party. Dunes hospice will help make dreams come true. In 2025, dunes dreams provided $15,258 in total support. Financial assistance for funerals: many people in hospice care face daunting medical bills, limited income and even heartbreak over financial provision for a loved one after the person on hospice care passes. Dunes hospice foundation will help address such needs through kind assistance by paying for funerals. In 2025, the organization provided $5,200 in financial assistance for funerals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.