Minnewaska Community Health Services
Legal name: Minnewaska Lutheran Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410845402
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Starbuck, MN, United States
- Phone
- 320-239-2217
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,454,565
- Expenses
- $14,942,127
- Assets
- $11,153,605
- Liabilities
- $13,208,001
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER KNOLL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER KNOLL (CEO): $146,755 total reported compensation
- CAROLINE HENDREN (CFO): $121,793 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minnewaska Community Health Services takes pride in providing our residents with quality healthcare in a comfortable and safe setting. If you would like to help our mission, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to our organization. Your gift will help us provide person-centered care that encourages all people to reach their highest potential.
What it reported doing in 2023
Minnewaska Lutheran Home, a 39-bed skilled nursing facility, promotes health to the community by providing skilled nursing care and physical, occupational, and speech therapy services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: -11.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.18; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $12.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $622K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 30 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.