Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237448586
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Phone
8055638820
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,246,493
Expenses
$4,465,791
Assets
$6,337,999
Liabilities
$1,590,609

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID SELBERG (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID SELBERG (CEO): $214,447 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As the second oldest hospice in America, hospice of Santa Barbara continues to grow in depth and range as we care for anyone facing a life threatening illness or grieving the loss of a loved one. We provide ongoing support services - including care management, professional individual and group counseling, mentorship and compassionate caregiving - to children, teens, adults and families. Services are provided at our main office, in homes, on school campuses, workplaces, hospitals, convalescent homes and long-term nursing facilities. Hospice of Santa Barbara provides all its professional services free to the community and receives no government or insurance reimbursements.

What it reported doing in 2024

Bereavement ServicesBereavement, Anticipatory Bereavement, Mortality Threat and End of Life Counseling Services are offered at Hospice of Santa Barbara for both adults and children. All services are offered freely to all clients.Modalities include individual counseling and relationship-based process groups or activity-based support-groups such as Writing, Poetry, Song, and Art.Adult individual bereavement counseling is limited to 25 months of service for intimate relationships of parent/child (up to age 25 years) and spousal/partner loss toward getting through the 2nd death anniversary and holiday season, whichever comes last assuming our Mission subject remains valid.All other adult bereavement counseling is limited to 13 months of service toward getting through the 1st death anniversary or holiday season, whichever comes last assuming our Mission subject remains valid.There is no service limit for children, adult anticipatory bereavement, or end of life.We have community partner outreach at all six (6) public secondary schools in Santa Barbara and Goleta, Santa Ynez Valley Union High School and the entire Carpinteria Unified School District each school is assigned a counselor for weekly therapy sessions on their campus.Additional Community partners include support groups for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and most recently Partners for Kids, an interagency and interdisciplinary pediatric concurrent model of care lead by Visiting Nurse Association Health (VNA Health) and Cottage Health System.We also have a satellite office in Carpinteria.All services are conducted by CA Board of Behavioral Sciences Licensed, Associate, or Trainee clinical staff currently we have twenty- three (23) available clinicians.Many of our clients are with co-morbid mental health conditions and primary attachment injuries that become activated with our Mission subject we work broadly with our clients within scope of practice, given clinical preparation/training, clinical supervision and available clinical consultation.The goal of our work is to help the clients resolve their subjective distress associated with our Mission subject expressed as acceptance, integration, or resolved enough to adaptively move forward without further counseling assistance.DURING 2024 HSB SERVED 824 NEW BEREAVEMENT CLIENTS; OF WHICH, 602 WERE ADULTS AND 222 WERE CHILDREN. HSB CONDUCTED 7,444 SESSIONS; OF WHICH, 5,934 WERE ADULTS AND 1,510 WERE CHILDREN.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - 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: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 71.9%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 71.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $214K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • 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 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.