South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510175068
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- W Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037966490
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,124,967
- Expenses
- $50,272,028
- Assets
- $201,242,737
- Liabilities
- $205,296,604
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANNY SANFORD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DANNY SANFORD (CEO): $771,083 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH WENGER (CFO): $359,888 total reported compensation
- DAVID SMART (COO): $315,185 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 a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
In fiscal year 2025, still hopes served over 446 individuals and their families by providing over 162,790 days of care. Solutions for living at home (home care) served over 297 individuals and their families through over 234,156 hours of care. Still hopes provided $85,378 in resident assistance for 2025 - $3,946,248 since the resident assistance program was established. Still hopes received from volunteers over 5,000 hours of attention to residents; and employed more than 928 individuals paying $27,246,319 in salaries and benefits. Still hopes provided unreimbursed care to medicare patients of more than $1.30 million during fiscal 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
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: -4.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $771K · 28 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.8M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.