Good Shepherd Lutheran Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470391515
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Blair, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024264663
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,136,170
- Expenses
- $6,660,472
- Assets
- $4,394,791
- Liabilities
- $2,717,173
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PASTOR SEAN TYLER (PRESIDENT)
- DAVE LADWIG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JANE HEINRICH (PRESIDENT THRU 10/2018)
- KEN MCELHOSE (VICE PRESIDENT THRU 10/2018)
- JOSEPH M ROMSHEK (CEO/ADMINISTRATOR)
- MARY POWELL (CEO/ADMINISTRATOR THRU 12/2018)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY POWELL (CEO/ADMINISTRATOR THRU 12/2018): $88,756 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH M ROMSHEK (CEO/ADMINISTRATOR): $85,313 total reported compensation
- TERESA HILLMAN (OFFICE MANAGER): $79,177 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve the social, physical, and spiritual needs of Gods people, in a manner of love, dignity and respect reflective of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd. Good Shepherd Lutheran Community** , a faith-based community, provides a continuum of services and care which include independent living, assisted living, skilled rehabilitation and long-term care. Located in Blair, Nebraska, Good Shepherd Lutheran Community has that small, home-town feel, yet is only 20 miles away from Omaha, Nebraska, the largest metropolitan city in Nebraska. This location provides resident access to both local physicians and a variety of specialists. Throughout its history, Good Shepherd has remained true to its mission: to serve the social, physical, and spiritual needs of God’s people, in a manner of love, dignity and respect reflective of Jesus Christ, the Good Shephe.
What it reported doing in 2018
Good shepherd lutheran community operates a 84-bed skilled nursing facility for elderly, invalid and indigent persons, which offers private and semi-private rooms, as well as a secured memory support unit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $958K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.