Solheim Senior Community
Legal name: Solheim Lutheran Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951643384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Phone
- 323.257.7518
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,070,439
- Expenses
- $19,611,452
- Assets
- $19,240,785
- Liabilities
- $5,326,243
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMUEL ODEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- SAMUEL ODEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $301,463 total reported compensation
- MEG SPURLIN (S.N.F. ADMINISTRATOR): $217,377 total reported compensation
- MARIE GARNETT (DIRECTOR OF NURSING): $188,747 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 abundant living for older adults in a caring faith-based community filled with love, peace, dignity, and security. You’ll receive great support with services like housekeeping, maintenance, health care, transportation, and dining—and our diverse daily activities will engage your heart, mind, and soul! At Solheim Senior Community, located in the heart of Los Angeles, we provide an exceptional Residential Living in Los Angeles experience that goes beyond simply offering a place to live—it’s a community designed to foster well-being, engagement, and peace of mind. Our spacious and thoughtfully designed apartments are tailored to suit the unique needs of our residents, creating a warm and inviting environment that prioritizes both safety and comfort. We craft individualized care plans to ensure that each res.
What it reported doing in 2024
Solheim lutheran home provides residential, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing care for older adults of all faiths. For an expanded description of solheim lutheran home's services and activities, please see schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: -2.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $301K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.