Hospice of Marion County
Legal name: Hospice of Marion County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592214796
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Ocala, FL, USA
- Phone
- (352) 873-7400
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,451,759
- Expenses
- $49,014,682
- Assets
- $58,512,313
- Liabilities
- $4,786,966
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN FLEECE (EMPATH CEO/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JONATHAN FLEECE (EMPATH CEO/PRESIDENT): $792,410 total reported compensation
- TARRAH L LOWRY (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $671,396 total reported compensation
- SAIDA BOUHAMID (EMPATH CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $508,497 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hospice of Marion County provides compassionate, expert hospice care throughout Marion County, Florida.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hospice of marion county provides comfort centered care to residents of marion county with advancing illness (a prognosis of 6 months or less). We coordinate an extensive plan of care overseen by an interdisciplinary team of medical professionals, including physicians, nurses, certified nursing assistants, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists, bereavement facilitators and trained volunteers, who address the patient's physical, emotional, psychological, social and spiritual needs. The hospice team guides patients and their families through the difficulties of dealing with a life-limiting illness by providing compassionate care in one's own home, in one of our three hospice houses, assisted living facilities, nursing homes or anywhere a patient calls home. Hospice of marion county provided 179,151 patient days of hospice care to patients and their (continued on schedule o) families throughout marion county. During fy25 and provided over $1,034,599 in unreimbursed services and community benefits, fulfilling a key part of tidewell's mission to serve all those in need, regardless of their ability to pay. Hospice of marion county provided 8,237 patient days of hospice house care to patients and their families in fy25.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $9,346.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $792K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 26 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.