Ingleside Homes Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510113243
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
3025750250
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Supportive Housing for Older Adults

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,779,314
Expenses
$9,785,330
Assets
$18,595,829
Liabilities
$13,183,409

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE CESSNA (PRESIDENT, CEO)
  • DENISE WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAWRENCE CESSNA (PRESIDENT, CEO): $354,160 total reported compensation
  • CATHY CESSNA (DIRECTOR OF FUND DEVELOPMENT): $152,470 total reported compensation
  • DENISE WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,597 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide affordable housing and home care services for low to moderate income seniors in the Delaware valley through its programs that include ingleside retirement apartments, ingleside assisted living, ingleside senior services, ingleside home care, and the alletta laird & robert n. Downs cultural center.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ingleside senior services provides information to the elderly at risk community about available services including food supplies, home repairs, home safety, housing, medicare and medicaid services. The program educated 4,155 seniors, referral 111 seniors, case managed 149 cases, performed 23 home repairs, 33 instances of homelessness were addressed using cdbg homeless prevention funds and 38 seniors received medicaid/medicaid application assistance.the organization also sponsors and manages the h. Fletcher brown apartments low-income housing tax credit project. This project provides 35 one-bedroom apartments for low-income seniors. In 2025 h. F. Brown apartments provided 12,654 nights of shelter. Revenue from this program includes fees relating to h. Fletcher brown apartments lp management and development.

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 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 9.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $354K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.