Maryhurst Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311542209
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Louisville, KY, USA
Phone
5022714503
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,572,375
Expenses
$19,544,049
Assets
$18,965,709
Liabilities
$1,371,827

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAULA GARNER (CEO/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAULA GARNER (CEO/PRESIDENT): $180,824 total reported compensation
  • LISA PURDY (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER (THRU 1/2025)): $147,103 total reported compensation
  • MELISSA HARDIN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $65,449 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Maryhurst, inc. Is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to strengthen and empower children and families in greatest need. Maryhurst has developed a continuum of care that allows us to provide a wide range of expert clinical, educational, health, and wellness services in order to appropriately serve children during various stages of their treatment needs. Our programs include intensive residential treatment programs, community based therapeutic group homes, and community based therapy and support services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community based: our community based group home offers a variety of treatment services, focusing on community integration for up to 12 adolescent youth age 12-21 in a pre-independent living setting. Treasure home, located in fern creek, serves youth who have been traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. Transitional living and aftercare services provides services to all maryhurst residential clients to provide support and guidance with the goal that each client is prepared with an individualized transition plan when discharged from care. The transition team provides life skills, independent living resources, and support for clients. This program shares community resources, performs check ins at regular intervals, and guides clients just before leaving and for up to a year after treatment. Counseling services with locations in portland, shively and eastern jefferson county, we provide outpatient counseling and in-home services for clients and their families. The treatment clinics provide evidence-based assessment, case management, individual, group and family counseling, skills training, family support services, peer support groups, parenting support/ training, trauma services and support, and psychiatric services. Services are tailored to clients and families with a strengths-based approach.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% 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.
  • 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: Pass
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: -5.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $181K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $744K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.