Lightbridge Hospice Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201931420
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8584582992
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,449
- Expenses
- $180,715
- Assets
- $362,187
- Liabilities
- $10,128
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- JILL MENDLEN (Chairman)
- ANN OWENS (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- RON GALAN (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the foundation is funding exceptional programs that enhance the end of life journey for patients and their families throughout san diego.typical payors of hospice & palliative care pay for benefits that include a core group of medical, social and spiritual care services. However, those plans do not provide for the creative and thereputic interventions that the foundation provides and have a profound impact on the lives of patients and their loved ones.the foundation also funds care & services for individuals who are unable to pay for end-of-life hospice care. As part of their mission, the foundation provides community education and grants for clinical training & education for healthcare professionals.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Alma Wise Fund supports a variety of non-medical, therapeutic programs designed to speak to the heart, embrace the soul and ease the burden and stress often associated with the hospice journey. In addition to funding needed supplies and materials, donations to this fund support special training for staff and volunteers in these unique healing arts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.1% of revenue deployed · 40.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.