National Alliance for Care at Home Leadership Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541096334
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7038371500
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospices

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,996,429
Expenses
$11,968,520
Assets
$11,387,021
Liabilities
$4,358,899

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BEN MARCANTONIO (INTERIM CEO)
  • CARRIE HOOVER (VICE PRESIDENT, EDUCATION)
  • APARNA GUPTA (VICE PRESIDENT, QUALITY)
  • RORY FARRAND (VICE PRESIDENT, PALLIATIVE & ADVANCE)
  • ROWENA ALLEN (VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY)

Highest reported compensation

  • BEN MARCANTONIO (INTERIM CEO): $587,925 total reported compensation
  • ROWENA ALLEN (VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY): $334,301 total reported compensation
  • CALEB TILLER (VP -MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, MEMBERSHIP): $332,488 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The foundation leads efforts to ensure that individuals living with serious illness-and their families-have equitable access to high quality, interdisciplinary, person centered hospice and palliative care. The organization provides education, and advocates for policy initiatives that support and advance end of life care.

What it reported doing in 2024

Support for expanded, equitable access to hospice and palliative care-in partnership with the u.s. Department of veterans affairs, nhpco'swe honor veterans program supported over 5,000 community providersacross the country to ensure that america's veterans and their familiesreceive the specialized care they deserve for serious illness and endof life.-created and provided "equity where it matters" series in conjunction with diversity advisory council and project echo.-translated caring info web site and advance directive documents in spanish.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $588K · 32 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $809K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.