Minnesota Hospice Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822966262
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lakeville, MN, USA
Phone
9528981022
Rating
98
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospices

Reported finances

Revenue
$38,708
Expenses
$9,651
Assets
$52,737

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR DAVID GILBERTSON (PRESIDENT)
  • JORDAN TANGEN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KEN HAGLIND (MEMBER AT LARGE)
  • DR DAVID GILBERTSON (PRESIDENT)
  • BETSY SCHERER (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Minnesota hospice foundation is committed to aiding people with compassion, care, and dignity at end-of-life. Our goal is to normalize discussions surroungitn deaht, dying, bereavement and loss by promoting hospice access, utilization, supporting exceptional end-of-life care, guidance, and education throughout the community. We believe that by focusing on charity care, special patient needs, community support, education, and trainign, we can promote understanding and assit individuals, families, and communities in navigating end-of-life and grief in positive and healthy ways.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide education and charitable work for the publicregarding end of life hospice care

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 75.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.46; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.