Haven Hospice

Legal name: North Central Florida Hospice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
592490893
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Gainesville, FL, USA
Phone
(352) 379-0100
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Hospices

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$98,380,473
Expenses
$42,062,182
Assets
$112,553,652
Liabilities
$2,100,961

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE G SCHREIBER (Former President & CEO/Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAWRENCE G SCHREIBER (Former President & CEO/Director): $6,649,928 total reported compensation
  • STEVEN ZIEGLER (PRESDIENT & CLO): $1,800,349 total reported compensation
  • ELLEN L TALOS (DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL OPERATIONS): $365,630 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide compassionate care and support to individuals and families facing serious illness, ensuring no one dies alone.

What it reported doing in 2024

Haven hospice provides bereavement services to family members of patients who have died in our care and to the communities in which we serve. Workplace counseling and support: haven hospice provides counseling and support to area businesses whose staff are dealing with grief, loss, life-limiting illness, or serving as caregivers. Haven hospice is a resource for counseling services and educational programs. Helping employees with family concerns has proven to lower unscheduled absences, reduce the number of benefit claims and increase productivity. Haven hospice offers several counseling and support programs and services at community worksites as follows: coping with grief and loss in the workplace; working caregivers: balancing two full-time jobs; life planning: documents you shouldn't live without; and preventing compassion fatigue in the caregiving profession. Camp safe haven: camp safe haven provides children, teens and families with fun and therapeutic activities to help them work through their feelings of grief. The camp is supported by haven hospice's staff of professionals and volunteers healing hearts grief support: haven hospice's healing hearts grief support program offers individual, family and group counseling to anyone coping with loss, regardless of how the loss occurred. Counseling and education: haven hospice offers short-term individual, family and group bereavement counseling with specially trained haven hospice professionals for anyone in the community who has experienced a loss. Memorial services: haven hospice hosts love and remembrance (memorial) services in spring and fall to honor the lives of family, friends and loved ones. The bereavement department conducted 48 community education events. In addition, 10,931 support mailers were distributed, 9,699 bereavement support phone calls were placed and 234 counseling sessions were provided for either group, individual, or family grief support. In addition, memorial services and teen/kid grief camps were provided in 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 42
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 64.8%; rating input score 65
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: 57.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 64.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $27.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $6.6M · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.