Lutheran SeniorLife

Legal name: St John Lutheran Care Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
250969478
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Mars, PA, United States
Phone
(724) 776-1100
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,786,690
Expenses
$24,441,790
Assets
$34,479,898
Liabilities
$58,547,020

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID J FENOGLIETTO (CHAIRMAN): $502,791 total reported compensation
  • JEFFREY L CARRAWAY (TREASURER): $268,264 total reported compensation
  • SAMANTHA RAPUK (SECRETARY): $186,436 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to continually transform and elevate health, wellness, and social services while fostering an Abundant Life for those we serve and those who serve. Lutheran SeniorLife is an organization rich in tradition, faith and in quality service delivered each and every day. Seniors and their families have been a constant foundation of our rich 100-year history, but their expectations and needs are ever-changing. What lies ahead is a new beginning with a broader delivery of services and communities to enhance senior living. We are investing our resources to align our organization with new expectations for health and wellness while being able to fulfill our mission of providing opportunities for an abundant life. As the expectations of those we serve evolve, Lutheran SeniorLife will continue to deliver on its obligations and commitments, and will m.

What it reported doing in 2024

St. John specialty care center is a 501(c)(3) skilled nursing and personal care facility with a more than 100-year history of providing faith-based, not-for-profit services to elders in western Pennsylvania. St. John received the continuing care retirement community designation from the Pennsylvania department of insurance in december of 2008. In 2014, st. John specialty care center started doing business as st. John community to reflect the continuing care retirement community it has become. St. John community is located on a scenic 24-acre campus in mars, pa, and currently serves over 250 residents. Licensed by the Pennsylvania department of health as a skilled nursing facility and Pennsylvania department of public welfare as a personal care facility, st. John specialty care center offers short-term rehabilitation, skilled nursing care, long-term care, dementia care, and sub-acute care, as well as personal care and residential living. St. John specialty care center specializes in dementia care. In the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, st. John provided 47,128 days of nursing care. Medicaid covered 29,374 of those days which is 62% of total resident days. St. John provided 19,305 days of care in our personal care unit. A benevolent care program is available at st. John to provide assistance to individuals in personal care who have outlived their personal resources. St. John provided benevolent care for a total of $16,078 for personal care residents in fiscal year 2025. The residence at st. John, a 27-unit independent/residential living on the 5th floor of the st. John building has been open since december of 2022. The residence at st. John had an average occupancy of 25 residents during the 2025 fiscal year.rosecrest is a 30-bed assisted living secured residence for residents in need of memory support. This state-of-the art, licensed assisted living residence has provided 9,693 days of assisted living care in the year ending june 30, 2025. Overbrook pointe, a 53-unit independent living apartment building for seniors has been open since september of 2013. Overbrook pointe ended the fiscal year with 51 apartments occupied with a total of 59 residents.

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

MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 37
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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: 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: -17.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.7; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $503K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 21 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.