Harbor House of Rochester

Legal name: Harbor House of Rochester Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900357136
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Rochester, NY, USA
Phone
(585)-473-1779
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$208,114
Expenses
$133,208
Assets
$1,176,734
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOTT ANTHONY (PRESIDENT)
  • LAWRENCE JONES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAWRENCE JONES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $56,208 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Harbor House of Rochester offers safe, supportive and affordable temporary lodging for families of adult patients from outside the Rochester area, who are receiving critical care at local-area hospitals. Send us a payment of $ 100.00 for each day you wish to adopt. Donors can choose a day to adopt for all 12 months for a donation of $1200. Fill in the name of the person you wish to honor or remember. You can choose to have your tribute displayed: on our website, as a special post on our social media pages, in our newsletter, and/or on the special Harbor House Adopt-A-Day Board displayed at the Harbor House of Rochester. You may choose the standard tribute: [Donor name] adopts [date] in honor/in celebration/in memory of [honoree name], or you may provide a customized tribute text message of up to 100 words. You may also include a photo of your honoree, or other relevant image, quote...

What it reported doing in 2024

Harbor house of rochester, inc. (the home) provides a "home-away-from-home" for patients and their families who must travel to the rochester, ny area for treatment of serious or life-threatening illnesses. The home offers convenient, affordable accomodations in a home-like environment which helps to reduce the emotional and financial stress faced by people dealing with a medical crisis. The home provided more than 1,457 nights of lodging for more than 80 individuals, with an average length of stay of approximately 19 nights during 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $421.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.83; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.