Great Lakes Orthopedic Relief International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881060401
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8575401757
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,314
- Expenses
- $93,613
- Assets
- $34,860
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Hearty (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maureen Hearty (Treasurer)
- Thomas Hearty (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide free orthopedic care to the underresourced population in and around La Romana, Dominican Republic. Our group is focused on the planning and execution of three, week-long trips in order to provide operative analysis non-operative care to around 50 patients per trip.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hospital Charges/room and board: our largest expense is to El Buen Samaritano Hospital, our partner institution in the Dominican Repubulic. This expense includes payment for the use of the facilities operating room and clinic space, their staff and the supplies we use during our week-long trips. This expense also pays room, board and meals for our volunteers for each week we are there.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.