National Hospice Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541586967
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7038371500
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,670
Expenses
$117,572
Assets
$1,124,091
Liabilities
$122,701

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BEN MARCANTONIO (INTERIM CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • BEN MARCANTONIO (INTERIM CEO): $587,925 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

We envision a world where everyone facing serious illness, death, and grief will experience the best that humankind can offer. Nhf, the fundraising affiliate of the national hospice and palliative care organization (nhpco), is dedicated to creating resources for individuals and their families facing serous and life-limiting illness, raising awareness and increasing access to hospice and palliative care, and providing ongoing professional education and skills development to hospice and palliative care professionals.

What it reported doing in 2024

The national hospice foundation (nhf), the fundraising affiliate of the national hospice and palliative care organization (nhpco), is dedicated to creating resources for individuals and their families facing serious and life-limiting illness, raising awareness and increasing access to hospice and palliative care, and providing ongoing professional education and skills development to hospice and palliative care professionals.nhf has numerous programs and fund that help achieve these goals including the lighthouse of hope fund, designed to grant special wishes to end-of-life hospice patients; grief/bereavement support to those preparing for end of life and their families; the workforce emergency support fund, which provides financial support for hospice providers and staff who have been affected by emergency events, and the lighthouse of hope fund, which helps provide financial support to fulfill last wishes. These services are made possible by financial contributors and donors. In 2024, nhf provided scholarship funds for nhpco conference registrations for individual members. Thanks to the generous financial contribution this scholarship program enablednumerous nhpco members to receive important educational opportunities they may not have otherwise been able to.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 23
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.4%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 24
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94.6%; rating input score 95; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.56; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -23.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.4% of revenue deployed · 23.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $588K · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.