Orleans-Essex Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237418021
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Newport, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8023345213
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Home Health Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,932,663
- Expenses
- $2,601,344
- Assets
- $9,819,572
- Liabilities
- $334,273
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Lewis (Board President)
- James Johnson (Vice President)
- Lyne Limoges (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lyne Limoges (Executive Director): $255,549 total reported compensation
- Sharon Porter (Registered Nurse): $166,343 total reported compensation
- Karla Lillicrap (HR Director): $141,313 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Agency believes that quality health care services should be available to all individuals regardless of their age, disease, health status, sex, race, social condition, religion or economic status. Similarly, all individuals should have access to preventative health care and information about health promotion.The Orleans Essex Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice is committed to a leadership role in the provision of home based health related services and recognizes its responsibility to actively participate in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.In its commitment to providing quality services, the Agency recognizes the importance of a Corporate Compliance Program which detects and promotes prevention of activities which violate state and federal laws and regulations. The Agency assures that all policies and procedures governing the operations of the Agency are adhered to, monitored, and reviewed as necessary.
What it reported doing in 2025
Orleans-Essex Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, Inc.'s primary purpose is to provide home health care and additional therapeutic services for the sick in their homes on a part-time or intermittent basis to residents of the Northern Vermont counties of Orleans and Essex. They also provide community health services and projects through grants and contracts with various Federal, State and Local Agencies.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.77; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $256K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $472K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.