Hospice Care Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810539006
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2019
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Missoula, MT, USA
Phone
4065412255
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$24,693
Expenses
$98,988
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JULIE RICHTER (President)

People named in this filing

  • JULIE RICHTER (President)
  • KEVI BERGER (Executive Dir.)
  • THERESA MINJARES (Treasurer)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To fund compassionate care activities and educate the community on hospice and palliative care options, while striving to ensure that hospice care options are available to those in need.

What it reported doing in 2019

The organization is dedicated to providing grants to hospice and palliative care providers throughout western Montana as well as to hospice patients and their families. This is evident as the organization has given out over $130,000 in the last three years. These grants are in the areas of program/project support, program/project grants, volunteer recruitment and retention: honoring our heroes grants and individual rewards and reimbursement grants to organizations serving indigent individuals: compassionate care grants and financial assistance including my wishes and burial/cremation assistance. The organization has educated community members about the organization, its programs and projects. The community education campaign utilizes mostly free and reduced cost activities partnership activities and social media outlets and has led the organization to recruit new volunteers who have become consistent volunteers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 29

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -300.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -44.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -29.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 28.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.