Mt. Hope Nazarene Retirement Community
Legal name: Mt Hope Nazarene Retirement Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205034032
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Manheim, PA, USA
- Phone
- (717) 665-6365
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Citizens' Housing/Retirement Communities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,100,071
- Expenses
- $6,700,772
- Assets
- $4,693,452
- Liabilities
- $1,868,387
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNA LUCAS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELE TORNABE (ADMINISTRATOR): $103,577 total reported compensation
- MARINA MAXIM (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $84,090 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serving the community and offering hope by providing affordable, quality care in a wholesome Christian environment based on Christ’s model of care “for the least of these” (Matthew 25:40). Mt. Hope Nazarene Retirement Community is a 50-bed Medicare, Medicaid-certified, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Since 1969, Mt. Hope has had a legacy of caring, and offers an affordable, quality option to help the “least of these” while at the same time offering hope. Regardless of a person’s finances and status, we see helping those in need as our mission. Accolades Medicare.gov: 5-star Nursing Facility with no deficiencies! Hope Nazarene Retirement Community is a non-profit, skilled long term care and rehabilitation facility whose main mission is to “serve the community and offer hope by providing affordable quality care in a wholesome Christian environment based on Christ’s...
What it reported doing in 2024
During the fiscal year we achieved our tax exempt purpose by rendering nursing and residential services to the frail and elderly in our skilled nursing unit and residential living units. We provided 17,940 service days of skilled nursing care during the fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.