Greater Lansing Care Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881077646
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Okemos, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5179309891
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alzheimer's Disease
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,107
- Expenses
- $18,888
- Assets
- $121,845
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHEAL SHAFER (EXECUTIVE DI)
- STEPHANIE SHAFER (TREASURER)
- BROOKE VANBUREN-HAY (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission: the greater lansing care foundation is a non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to providing support and education to caregivers who have a family member with dementia. The foundation aims to ensure that all caregivers have equal access to valuable community resources to reduce the physical, psychological, financial, and social burdens commonly associated with the management of dementia. The foundation will aim to provide services to families within the greater lansing area, particularly those from historically underserved populations. Our vision: to ensure that no family member in the greater lansing community ever feels as if they are alone when it comes to caring for a loved one with dementia. Core care values: c: compassion: empathy and compassion serve as a central foundation principle based on the prioritization of good communication, patience, understanding, critical thinking, and cultural awareness. A: accountability & reliability: the foundation pledge
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation has created a free lecture series for community members who have a loved one with dementia. Lectures are held quarterly and focus on a single issue relevant to caregivers, including mental health, elder law, and current treatment trends in dementia. The foundation also has a monthly newsletter, an informative podcast aimed at expanding information presented in the lecture series, and an active community calendar to inform community members about existing events that may be relevant to caregivers who have a loved one with dementia. The foundation also produces social media posts aimed at further expanding mission awareness. The foundation is actively developing an ai-driven database for caregivers to search for valuable information about dementia. We are also developing a small asks program to offer small grants to families in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.5%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 79.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.45; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -47.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 60.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 86.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.5% of revenue deployed · 22.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.