Good Samaritan Hospice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541608259
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Roanoke, VA, USA
Phone
5407760198
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,495,816
Expenses
$20,891,924
Assets
$19,664,254
Liabilities
$4,371,141

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

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AARON HOUSH EX OFFICIO (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER EASTERDAY (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $236,062 total reported compensation
  • AARON HOUSH EX OFFICIO (CEO): $235,617 total reported compensation
  • JULIE SIMMERSON (PALLIATIVE CARE CLINICAL TEAM LEAD): $144,808 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

It is the mission of good samaritan hospice to affirm life in the midst of illness and grief. We accomplish this objective by providing quality patient care, family support, community education and counseling services through an interdisciplinary team of caregivers. In 2025, good samaritan provided compassionate hospice care to 1,917 patients in the roanoke and new river valleys, for a total of 102,108 patient care days. Good samaritan provided palliative care to 693 patients.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide physical, psychosocial and spiritual care to advanced illness patients, their families and friends. Good samaritan launched a community-based palliative care program in late 2020 that continued through 2025. Good samaritan also opened a freestanding hospice inpatient facility and launched a home health program during 2024. This has continued through 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. 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: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $20.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -1.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $236K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $961K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.