Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341283188
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Perrysburg, OH, US
Phone
419-661-4001
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,824,998
Expenses
$36,791,418
Assets
$40,850,177
Liabilities
$6,194,470

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TOM MYERS (CFO & VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS)
  • RICHARD E RUSSELL (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • KATHLEEN VALTIN (VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS)
  • RICH PLUE (VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL SERVICES)
  • MICHELLE POWER (VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES)
  • JOHN D LECHMAN (VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARSHA PAUL MD (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $322,217 total reported compensation
  • RICHARD E RUSSELL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $307,566 total reported compensation
  • KOSE ROBERT (HOSPICE PHYSICIAN): $249,429 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 Northwest Ohio provides specialized medical, emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages impacted by any life-limiting illness.

What it reported doing in 2024

Hospice care is care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully as possible. The philosophy of hospice is to provide support for the patients' emotional, social, and spiritual needs as well as medical symptoms as part of treating the whole person. Hospice programs are required to use a multidisciplinary team approach, including the services of a nurse, doctor, social worker, and clergy in providing care. Additional services provided include drugs to control pain and manage other symptoms, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, medical supplies and equipment, medical social services, dietary and other counseling, continuous home care at times of crisis, and bereavement services. Although hospice care does not aim for cure of the terminal illness, it does treat potentially curable conditions such as pneumonia and bladder infections, with brief hospital stays if necessary. Hospice programs also offer care from trained volunteers, who take over the patients' care so that the family or other primary caregivers can leave the house for a few hours. Volunteer care is part of hospice philosophy and is required under the conditions of participation and licensure palliative care. Palliative care is a home-based consultation service that provides relief for patients who have advanced chronic illness but are not on a hospice program. As a consult service, it is a short-term relationship which focuses on alleviating the symptoms of a disease or the side effects of treatment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 66th 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: -8.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $30.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $322K · 22 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.