Home Care Research of Rochester Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161142641
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location
Rochester, NY, USA
Phone
5852721930
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Senior Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$225,735
Expenses
$143,764
Assets
$1,072,929
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LOUISE WOERNER (PRESIDENT AND FINANCE COMM MEMBER)

People named in this filing

  • CHRISTA HEINSLER RNNP-CWON-AP APRN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • EDNA SILVERNAIL (BOARD MEMBER)
  • EMILY JONES (FORMER CHAIR OF BOARD)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of the organization is to address barriers to independent living through research education and program. Hcr cares enhances available services mirroring the communities we serve by fostering best home health care practices and identifying new ways to serve those for which their independce is challenged.

What it reported doing in 2025

Project Exito is funded by the Latino Giving Circle of the Rochester Area Community Foundation and Latinas Unidas. Its purpose is to select mentor and provide needed resources wrap around services to enable Latinas employed by HCR Home Care advance in clinical degrees such as RN LPN PTA or COTA. Candidates will be screened by HCRC to determine that they are enrolled in a clinical program and to identify support needed to help them successfully complete the degree. This is not a tuition scholarship program but assistance needed to help with identified needs such as money for baby sitting to facilitate studying or classes books transportation etc. Latinas Unidas will provide mentors for the participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.46; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.