Eben Ezer
Legal name: Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840194430
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brush, CO, United States
- Phone
- 970-842-2861
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nursing Services (General)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,375,364
- Expenses
- $16,994,438
- Assets
- $43,509,389
- Liabilities
- $36,319,757
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHELLY GRIFFITH (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SHELLY GRIFFITH (CEO): $240,967 total reported compensation
- LESLIE MASON (CFO): $176,473 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Two men in conversation indoors; one in orange shirt, the other in a white shirt. Mission Statement Founded in faith, our mission is to empower our team and those we serve to grow together as a community that celebrates aging. Founded in faith, our mission is to empower our team and those we serve to grow together as a community that celebrates aging. Purpose Statement. Purpose Statement To cultivate a community of meaning and purpose.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing skilled nursing care, respite care, assisted living, independent living, and lifeline emergency response services to the elderly and persons with special needs. The care center also provides electronic monitoring services to individuals in their home.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% 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.
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 15 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.1M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.