Bethesda Home & Retirement Center
Legal name: Mennonite Bethesda Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480594088
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Goessel, KS, USA
- Phone
- 620-367-2291
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,260,730
- Expenses
- $4,906,738
- Assets
- $7,568,074
- Liabilities
- $1,491,601
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA HIEBERT (CEO/TREAS/SEC)
Highest reported compensation
- SARA HIEBERT (CEO/TREAS/SEC): $120,877 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINA VALDOIS (CFO): $9,713 total reported compensation
- Lynette Duerksen (Trustee): $885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bethesda Home is a Christian community dedicated to provide the highest quality care in the name of Christ for the retired, frail and elderly with emphases on: Health care and nutrition; Physical fitness; Spiritual well-being; Emotional stability; A comfortable living environment. Bethesda Home is a Christian community dedicated to provide the highest quality care in the name of Christ for the retired, frail and elderly with emphases on: Health care and nutrition. Statement Bethesda seeks to be a community formed by the spirit of Jesus Christ to fulfill the lives of adults with special needs in a place that is home Our Vision. Community members have demonstrated their strong desire to have the Bethesda Home in their area through their financial and volunteer support. Bethesda’s 50-75 timelogging volunteers care for the frail and elderly within the Bethesda campus, allowing an extra...
What it reported doing in 2025
Mennonite bethesda society, inc. Operated a 45-bed medicaid certified nursing facility, a 10-bed assisted living unit and 28 independent living units in goessel, Kansas. The entity recorded 10,021 resident days during the current fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 6.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $441K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.