Nu-hope Elder Care Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591649814
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Sebring, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8633822134
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,139,394
- Expenses
- $3,377,201
- Assets
- $3,116,143
- Liabilities
- $1,058,348
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHAWN MARTZ (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- KIM HEINTZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DEBRA SLADE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBRA SLADE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $69,329 total reported compensation
- BRAD STOLL (FISCAL DIRECTOR): $60,390 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote the physical, emotional and economic well-being of seniors and their caregivers in highlands and hardee counties through leadership, advocacy, education and the provision of services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Home and community-based services to the elderly: case management, case aide, companionship, congregate meals, emergency alert response, personal care, nutrition education, nutrition counseling, outreach, transportation, energy assistance, health support, housing improvement, medical supplies, material aid and pest control.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.