Georgia Mountains Hospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582051326
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Jasper, GA, USA
- Phone
- 8006927199
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, Specialty
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,079,673
- Expenses
- $2,953,187
- Assets
- $3,235,511
- Liabilities
- $212,599
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GINA PENDLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GINA PENDLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $108,873 total reported compensation
- MARY ANNE BRAMLETT (CFO): $81,970 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 offer hope to a patient for whom all hope for cure has been exhausted; hope for maximum alertness, hope for independence and control over one's life. To offer support to families by allowing terminal patients to live at home pain free and with dignity. To offer the opportunity to tie up loose ends, make reconciliations, to know "good" goodbyes. To offer spiritual guidance and answers to one's search for meaning in one's life and death. To offer relief from financial strain. To offer care and support to family members and significant others through the bereavment period. To offer support to the community through education on death and dying.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hospice program: we provide access to the highest quality hospice program for the people of north Georgia we care for through comprehensive approaches to palliative care, pain management, and compassionate customer services, while developing exceptional professional skills regarding hospice care for a rural community.our goals are 1: to provide service excellence in nursing care, emotional support, spiritual guidance, and bereavement services for terminally ill patients and heir families.2: to provide a spirit of acceptance and mutual respect, quality and compassionate care to all patients requesting services.3: to promote independence, comfort, and dignity surrounding death in one's chosen environment.4: to serve as a facilitator of education and community resources for patients with limited life expectancy, their families, and community physicians.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 4.1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.