Mississippi Health Care Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201892702
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ridgeland, MS, USA
Phone
6019568276
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,048
Expenses
$71,331
Assets
$242,952
Liabilities
$5,313

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHAD BLACKARD (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CHAD BLACKARD (PRESIDENT)
  • GREG GARVIN (VICE-PRESIDE)
  • BRIAN DICKERSON (SECRETARY/TR)

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

Mississippi health care foundation' s exempt purpose is to support quality long-term care in Mississippi through assisting and servicing the requests of residents in nursing facilities through the provision of medical and personal needs, the granting of special wishes or events, the awarding of long-term-care-related scholarships, and the raising of community awareness of the quality of care and services provided by the long-term care profession.

What it reported doing in 2025

Assisting residents of Mississippi's nursing facilities with personal and medical needs through supplementing funding needs (i.e. Dentures, eyeglasses, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, etc.) whenever other funding sources are inadequate or non-existent, either directly to the residents, or on behalf of residents to the facility in which they reside. In addition, scholarships are awarded to ltc employees in ltc facilities for bridge programs such as certified nursing assistant (cna) to lpn and lpn to rn. Total grants/scholarships issued for 2025 are as follows: other grants - 236 resident grants - 29,700 total - 29,936

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92

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: 28%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.41; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.