Hospice Austin
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742200596
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, Texas, US
- Phone
- (512) 342-4700
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,618,144
- Expenses
- $33,152,856
- Assets
- $25,009,473
- Liabilities
- $2,586,252
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HERB DYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- HERB DYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $308,412 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA MORGAN (CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER): $231,080 total reported compensation
- SYLVIA BELL (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $194,149 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide compassionate, expert end-of-life care and support to patients and their families, regardless of their ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hospice is designed to provide care and restore a sense of dignity and personal fulfillment to the dying. The program provides home care, inpatient care, and bereavement support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $308K · 28 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.