Lake Superior Hospice Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
382327011
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Marquette, MI, USA
Phone
9062257760
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospices

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,359,095
Expenses
$3,145,031
Assets
$1,373,311
Liabilities
$344,253

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AL HENDRA (PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER VOEGTLINE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER VOEGTLINE (CEO): $111,983 total reported compensation
  • REGAN SCHUHMACHER (DIRECTOR OF): $83,609 total reported compensation
  • MARY HOLKKO (CFO): $27,986 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Lake superior life care & hospice's mission is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality health care to patients in their home, through an interdisciplinary team that provides physical, emotional, and spiritual support.

What it reported doing in 2025

Lake superior hospice conducts a community-based hospice program providing services to meet the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of our patients and their families as they are faced with life-limiting illness and are nearing the end of life. Our interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, care aides, social workers, bereavement and spiritual care staff, along with a cadre of well-trained volunteers, provide in-home services including pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual care, personal care, respite services, and bereavement counseling. Grief counseling and support is also available to the community through the agency's monthly bereavement luncheon, twice-monthly grief support groups, and individual counseling.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 88% 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.

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st 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: 6.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $887K reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.