Methodist Village Senior Living
Legal name: Methodist Nursing Home of Fort Smith In
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710312652
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Smith, AR, United States
- Phone
- 479-452-1611
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,810,425
- Expenses
- $18,267,169
- Assets
- $19,858,292
- Liabilities
- $6,686,747
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH SIEBENMORGEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN DEVERO (PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA CURRY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MELISSA CURRY (CEO): $163,590 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission:** To provide wonderful life experiences that enable our residents and their families to lead full and enriching lives. Vision:** To exceed the expectations of our residents and families while inspiring hearts and minds. Methodist Village Senior Living opened its doors on March 1, 1961, as Methodist Nursing Home, a non-profit entity to be operated on a non-sectarian basis. It was “the first in the United States within the Methodist denomination built specifically for this purpose.” T. L. Hunt, for whom the chapel is named, was chairman of the board of trustees, and R. A. Young, Jr. was chairman of the building committee. Other members of the board were W. Downum, David Conyers, Dr.
What it reported doing in 2024
The operation of a 145-bed medicare and medicaid certified skilled nursing care center facility, a 45-bed combined assisted living and memory care facility, and a 43-unit independent living project for the elderly located in fort smith, Arkansas. Providing skilled nursing, living assistance, and memory care services to residents.
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 most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: 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: -2.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.7M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.