Hospice of Lansing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382306757
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5178824500
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Home Health Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,751,260
- Expenses
- $5,684,047
- Assets
- $2,996,970
- Liabilities
- $1,102,033
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATE MOSS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER VIDA (EXECUTIVE DI): $130,796 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide comprehensive, high quality hospice services to meet medical, nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs for individuals facing the last stages of life, as well as emotional care for their families and friends; to conduct continuing bereavement programs for the families and friends of hospice patients and others in the community; to support partnerships between the health care community and the people of the geographic areas served by hospice of lansing and ionia area hospice; to promote community education; to foster awareness, participation, knowledge and understanding of the hospice concept of care among the public and health professions.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide comprehensive, high quality hospice services to meet medical, nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs for individuals facing the last stages of life, as well as emotional care for their families and friends; to conduct continuing bereavement programs for the families and friends of hospice patients and others in the community;
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $205K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- 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 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.