Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382453316
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Ishpeming, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9062289699
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,121,652
- Expenses
- $11,167,565
- Assets
- $10,003,078
- Liabilities
- $4,355,997
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAY AMTMANN (PRESIDENT)
- LINDSEY BUTORAC (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GREGORY M TOUTANT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- GREGORY M TOUTANT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $162,519 total reported compensation
- DONALD WENDRICK (CRISIS SERVICES THERAPIST): $111,129 total reported compensation
- TRACY BUSSE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/CONTROLLER): $70,635 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower recovery through hope and change with a vision of helping to create healthy communities one person at a time.
What it reported doing in 2022
Residential services - served 970 clients for substance abuse addiction and 257 clients for social detox services. Clients served came from all 15 upper peninsula counties and surrounding areas to our facilities located in marquette and sault ste marie, Michigan.outpatient services - our outpatient offices are located throughout the upper peninsula of Michigan. 1,968 clients received substance abuse services, 579 received mental health services, 494 received medication assisted treatment and 1,694 received medical services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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 - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2022
- 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.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.