Linton Regional Medical Center
Legal name: Linton Hospital Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141842061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Linton, ND, US
- Phone
- 701.254.4511
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $272,832
- Expenses
- $239,007
- Assets
- $749,974
- Liabilities
- $34,353
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Jochim (President)
- Christine VanLeeuwen (Vice President)
- Lukas Fischer (Hospital CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Lukas Fischer (Hospital CEO): $335,853 total reported compensation
- Derek Schaff (Hospital CFO - Until June): $141,000 total reported compensation
- Christine VanLeeuwen (Vice President): $118,661 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to support and enhance the delivery of exceptional healthcare by providing vital resources, promoting innovation, and strengthening community partnerships. See Schedule O.Through philanthropic leadership, we strive to advance medical excellence, promote compassionate patient care, and improve the health and well-being of all individuals served by the Linton Regional Medical Center.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Linton Hospital Foundation provides fundraising services through an annual giving program and various other projects during the year. The purpose of the fundraising is to support the Linton hospital and subsidiaries. They also provide scholarships to individuals in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.14; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $336K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.