LCH Health and Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232041915
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kennett Square, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104447550
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,172,997
- Expenses
- $12,732,005
- Assets
- $7,478,747
- Liabilities
- $2,230,268
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ronan gannon (ceo)
Highest reported compensation
- ronan gannon (ceo): $271,305 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LCH Health and Community Services (LCH) mission is to improve patient health and wellbeing through innovative delivery of high-quality whole-person care. Our vision is a community in which all people have access to the health care they need, and the knowledge, motivation, and resources to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.
What it reported doing in 2024
LCH began in 1973 as a grassroots organization providing social services to farm workers in southern Chester County. Today, LCH provides comprehensive, integrated healthcare including primary care, women's health services, pediatrics, dental care, behavioral health counseling, social assistance, outreach, chiropractic care, access to the LCH Pharmacy, and educational support. In calendar year 2024, LCH assisted 1,146 unduplicated individuals 0-17 years of age. 5,650 unduplicated individuals 18-64 years of age, and 609 individuals 65 years of age and above. Of these individuals, 66% live at 200% or below federal poverty level. LCH caseworkers handled 7,024 appointments connecting patients to appropriate services outside LCH's scope of services. LCH clients face many obstacles to accessing healthcare, including lack of health insurance, language barriers, poverty, low education, and lack of transportation in this largely rural part of Chester County. Our mostly bi-lingual staff work with clients to determine their range of needs and refer them both to in-house LCH services and to services provided by other agencies in our community. LCH caseworkers assist with Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance applications, transportation, interpretation, referral appointment scheduling, and service agency connections.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: -4.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $271K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.