Iowa City Hospice
Legal name: Iowa City Hospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421154098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Iowa City, IA, US
- Phone
- 319-351-5665
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,088,703
- Expenses
- $5,880,171
- Assets
- $10,086,306
- Liabilities
- $268,366
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA KRIEGER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SARA KRIEGER (CEO): $132,586 total reported compensation
- SARA CAVEN (DIRECTOR): $103,432 total reported compensation
- KARA THOMA (DIRECTOR): $80,710 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Offering compassionate care to anyone in our community facing serious illness and end-of-life conditions
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides services to those facing a life limiting illness. In 2024 1,416 patients were served in our seven county service area (cedar, Iowa, johnson, linn, louisa, muscatine and Washington counties) for a total of 31,813 days of care. In addition to our professional staff, Iowa city hospice volunteers provide services that are as varied as the patients, families and communities we serve. Patient care volunteers provide companionship and support to terminally ill patients and their loved ones. Volunteers provide many forms of assistanve, at all levels of skill. Our 68 patient care volunteers provided 1638 hours of supportive services to those we served in 2024. Following a patient's death, Iowa city hospice bereavement staff is available to support family members and friends throughout the grieving process. Our services are also available to anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one, regardless of whether the person was in hospice care with Iowa city hospice. Iowa city hospice offered 55 sessions a of grief support services including support groups, grief education, and special events. Iowa city hospice staff served 172 participants in groups, bereavement luncheons and other events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 25%; rating input score 25; 6th 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: 17%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.