High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care In
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141712904
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Saranac Lake, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5188910606
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,374,768
- Expenses
- $4,814,588
- Assets
- $3,103,333
- Liabilities
- $393,065
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY FOY (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON SHANNON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GREG DENNIN (DIRECTOR)
- AMY FOY (PRESIDENT)
- BEATRICE BEQUIN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dignity, comfort and peace at the end of life high peaks hospice & palliative care, inc provides end of life care that listens with respect, cares with compassion, supports with choice, and comforts with understanding wherever you call home
What it reported doing in 2024
Hospice care delivering hospice & palliative care to the residents of warren, essex, franklin, hamilton, st lawrence and Washington counties - a 5,400 square mile, mostly rural service area the agency provides 24/7 clinical care, teaching and support to individuals and families livingwith life-limiting illness, the agency provided care based on individual care plans developed for each patient and family an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides, volunteers and others provide the expertise, treatment, medication, equipment and supplies needed to support the best quality of life possible for the individual and family bereavement support and counseling is provided to hospice families and community members who are living with loss the program works to address the causes of physical, emotional, spiritual and social distress that interfere with quality of life the agency is licensed by nys and is medicare/medicaid certified
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.