Samaritas
Legal name: Lutheran Nonprofit Housing Corporation - Ann Arbor (Sequoia Place)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383112348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- (833) 605-HOPE
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $465,633
- Expenses
- $597,291
- Assets
- $1,760,839
- Liabilities
- $4,257,239
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA BAUER (DIRECTOR)
- KEITH PHELPS (DIRECTOR)
- BECKY GUCWA (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serving people as an expression of the love of Christ. Group Therapy allows a person to relate to others (and oneself) in a healthy way, practice giving and receiving support, and helps people to realize they aren’t alone. Compassionate group hug at Samaritas, symbolizing community support and care for vulnerable populations. Highlighting the organization's mission of helping those in need through love and compassion. Intensive Outpatient. Intensive Outpatient Provides the opportunity for those that require a higher level of care the ability to obtain intensive treatment but still remain at home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided elderly and/or handicapped persons with housing facilities and services specially designed to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs, and promote their health, security, happiness, and usefulness through longer living. The charges for such facilities and services are based on a breakeven basis. The project is a 55-unit apartment complex.
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
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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 68.1%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -28.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.42; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 68.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $407K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.