Questcare Lifestyle Solutions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333036616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Spiceland, IN, USA
- Phone
- 7658102000
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,500
- Expenses
- $76,500
- Assets
- $2,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARQUEST HIGGINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- TERESA PUNZI (BOARD CHAIRPERSON)
- KAREN ANDREWS (BOARD CO-CHAIRPERSON)
- MARILYN LEWIS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
QuestCare LifeStyle Solutions Inc. empowers individuals and organizations by connecting people to essential resources, strengthening nonprofit capacity, and building accountable, standards-driven systems that improve quality of life and community outcomes. The organization focuses on community access navigation, nonprofit infrastructure development, technology integration, referral coordination, and collaborative partnerships that improve service accessibility, transparency, and long-term sustainability for underserved and rural communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
QuestCare LifeStyle Solutions Inc. (QCLS) developed its Organizational Support, Compliance, and Nonprofit Capacity Building initiative to address increasing operational instability, infrastructure deficiencies, governance challenges, technology gaps, fiduciary pressures, and sustainability barriers affecting nonprofit organizations throughout Madison County, Henry County, and surrounding rural Indiana communities. QCLS was founded through more than 20 years of operational leadership experience spanning nonprofit administration, Medicaid-funded disability services, enterprise technology systems, transportation coordination, compliance oversight, process optimization, and community support operations involving vulnerable and underserved populations. Through direct operational experience, organizational analysis, and nonprofit sector research, QCLS leadership identified that many community organizations struggle not because of lack of mission or community need, but because they lack the sustainable infrastructure, accountability systems, strategic planning capacity, governance support, technology integration, and operational readiness increasingly required within today's nonprofit environment. Nationally, the nonprofit sector represents more than 1.8 million organizations and employs approximately 12.8 million individuals; however, significant operational instability continues throughout the sector. Research indicates that approximately 30% of nonprofit organizations fail within 10 years, while more than 50% operate with less than one month of financial reserves. Nearly half of nonprofit organizations report difficulty meeting operational expenses necessary to maintain staffing, infrastructure, compliance systems, and long-term service continuity. Administrative underinvestment is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to nonprofit instability, particularly among smaller and rural organizations attempting to balance direct community services with growing governance, reporting, compliance, and accountability expectations. QCLS further identified that many nonprofit organizations continue operating with fragmented spreadsheets, disconnected communication systems, aging technology infrastructure, paper-based operational processes, inconsistent reporting structures, limited donor management systems, insufficient outcome tracking capabilities, and minimal coordinated data infrastructure necessary to support modern fundraising, operational oversight, and measurable accountability expectations. Many smaller and rural nonprofit organizations also face disproportionate workforce shortages, transportation barriers, reduced philanthropic concentration, limited access to operational consulting, inadequate strategic planning support, and restricted access to technology modernization resources capable of supporting long-term sustainability and operational resilience. QCLS recognized that fragmented organizational systems and operational duplication often increase administrative strain across already under-resourced organizations, reducing collaborative effectiveness, limiting measurable community impact, and weakening long-term ecosystem stability. Public trust, donor behavior, fiduciary oversight expectations, and grantmaker evaluation standards have also fundamentally shifted throughout the nonprofit sector. More than 70% of donors now research organizations online prior to contributing, while third-party nonprofit transparency and accountability organizations such as Candid and Charity Navigator increasingly influence donor confidence, grant competitiveness, public credibility, partnership opportunities, and long-term organizational sustainability. QCLS also recognized the rapidly growing influence of institutional philanthropy standards and Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) throughout the modern funding environment. National DAF assets now exceed hundreds of billions of dollars and continue influencing charitable giving trends, fiduciary
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.