Life-nwpa
Legal name: Lutheran Home for the Aged
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 250990591
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- (844) 456-5433
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,821,403
- Expenses
- $30,143,453
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PASTOR ALBERT GESLER (PRESIDENT)
- WADE ROOT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARK GUSEK (CEO)
- LAURA LYONS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK GUSEK (CEO): $12,741,150 total reported compensation
- KEVIN SHAFFER MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,811,457 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM FELDMANN (CFO): $754,219 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Personal care can be provided in home or in the LIFE-NWPA centers where personal care rooms are available to support independent or assisted personal care Skilled Care LIFE-NWPA provides highest level of care before a nursing home. Examples of skilled care may include wound care, in-home nursing, catheter care, IV therapy, injections, & physical therapy. The LIFE-NWPA Centers are open Monday through Friday and offer a wide variety of additional support, services & access to the care team as needed Nutrition Services Nutrition services may include meals in the home, nutritional supplements, therapeutic diets, nutritional counseling & education.
What it reported doing in 2021
Life program (living independence for the elderly) - this is a managed care program for frail elderly recipients who have been determined to need nursing facility level of care, but wish to remain in their homes and communities as long as possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 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: 24.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 67.6% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12.7M · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.