St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center

Overview

Mission

St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center provides a continuum of senior living and skilled nursing care, guided by its “ministry of gentle service” mission to deliver resident-centered care with safety, dignity, and freedom. Luke's is a fully licensed skilled care facility. In keeping with our mission statement, all of our employees seek to provide a "ministry of gentle service" for our residents. The goal of our increasingly "resident centered" care is to make life at St. Luke's as home-like as possible while maintaining the safety, dignity and freedom of each resident. Licensed nurses and certified nursing assistants provide complete nursing care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Doctors make regular visits. The nutritional needs of our residents are met by a trained dietary staff who work with our residents and their families to provide a variety of well balanced meals planned with...

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 88% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 75
• Transparency & Controls: 64
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 46
• Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $343K reported
• Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 6 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: 6 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.

Key Signals

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

• High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.