Lake Chelan Health and Wellness Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911196271
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Chelan, WA, USA
Phone
5096826125
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,802
Expenses
$173,117
Assets
$2,479,004
Liabilities
$782

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Phyllis Gleasman (President)
  • Karen McKellar (Vice President)
  • Mike Steele (Past President)

People named in this filing

  • Phyllis Gleasman (President)
  • Karen McKellar (Vice President)
  • Dale Hoisington (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The organization is operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of providing and improving healthcare services at Lake Chelan Health and its service area. The Foundation is dedicated to generating and managing donated assets to provide and improve healthcare facilities in its hospital district.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Lake Chelan Health & Wellness Foundation is committed to advancing healthcare facilities within its hospital district. The Foundation regularly purchases highly needed equipment for Lake Chelan Health. In the 1990s, the Foundation sponsored a capital campaign that raised $900,000 to support the building of a new hospital floor. Since 1997, equipment purchases have included emergency and operating room equipment, an x-ray unit, portable bedside monitors, and IV pumps. The Foundation purchased Glidescopes for EMS vehicles, orthopedic surgical tools, children's waiting room furniture, automated external defibrillators, a water purification system, and an integrated listening system for pediatric patients. Equipment purchases also include C-ARM, Portable X-ray, and PUT equipment. More recently, the Foundation raised funds for a new hospital building. Contributions to the hospital include the use of designated donor advised funds.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 66.1%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 95.6%; rating input score 96; 55th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -30.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.32; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 66.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.