Empath Health

Legal name: Empath Health Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263605761
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Clearwater, FL, US
Phone
(727) 467-7423
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,099,087
Expenses
$42,329,080
Assets
$235,232,479
Liabilities
$82,999,642

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JONATHAN FLEECE (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JONATHAN FLEECE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $792,410 total reported compensation
  • TARRAH L LOWRY (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $671,396 total reported compensation
  • SAIDA BOUHAMID (CFO): $508,497 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Redefining Health Care as Full Life Care

What it reported doing in 2024

Empath health, inc. Provides leadership and strategic guidance for its integrated network of care including suncoast hospice and other member programs. Quality of life for patients and families is at the heart of the mission-driven staff and volunteers of all empath health entities. Empath health provides support and care to people in tampa bay through its member programs, which include suncoast hospice, empath home health, epic (empath partners in care), suncoast pace, empath health pharmacy, empath community counseling and empath palliative care. Our comprehensive care covers numerous areas, including medical care, various therapies, caregiver guidance, services for children, assistance for those who experience perinatal loss and stillborn births, education and training, HIV/AIDS services, pharmacy, durable medical equipment, advance care planning, and countless other initiatives. Care and services are (continued on schedule o) thoughtfully conceived and often come about from receiving and then acting on direct requests from members of the community. Suncoast hospice of hillsborough, llc provides hospice services to patients and families in hillsborough county. Suncoast hospice of hillsborough's mission of care focuses on persons with advanced illnesses and extends to those acting as caregivers or working through grief. Suncoast hospice serves all people without regard to diagnosis, age, religion, ethnicity, gender, or financial circumstances. Empath community health, llc provides palliative or "comfort care" for patients living with a serious or life-limiting illness. The focus is to relieve pain, symptoms, and stress at any time during a serious illness and to support patients and families as they work though difficult decisions. Empath home health, llc is a medicare-certified home health agency that serves pinellas county. The agency focuses on delivering home healthcare as compassionate care with excellence. Empath home health provides skilled nursing care such as wound care, post-surgical care, and patient education, as well as physical, occupational and speech therapies and other related services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 84% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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: 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: 6.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.56; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 16 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $792K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 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: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 39 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.