St. Mary's Highland Hills
Legal name: St Mary's Highland Hills Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020576648
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Athens, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7063893939
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,614,526
- Expenses
- $6,100,126
- Assets
- $7,235,035
- Liabilities
- $1,967,541
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- D MONTEZ CARTER (FORMER OFFICER; TH OF NE PRES & CEO)
- DANIEL DRAKE (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CEO AS OF 1/25)
- STONISH PIERCE (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO THR 1/25)
Highest reported compensation
- D MONTEZ CARTER (FORMER OFFICER; TH OF NE PRES & CEO): $1,659,446 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL GUSHO (TREAS THR 12/24; CFO SVC AREA SOUTH): $1,079,883 total reported compensation
- DAVID SPIVEY (FORMER OFFICER): $1,044,731 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Highland Hills Village provides a continuum of senior care—including independent living, assisted living, and memory care—so residents can age in place. “Just a note to let you know that our family can’t thank you enough for your constant support during our Mother’s life changing health experience this past year. Mom was self-sufficient and very independent until this time a year ago. She had a serious health issue and we knew she needed to have more nursing care than we could provide. After discussions with our Mom we decided she needed to move into an assisted living community and thank goodness we had the opportunity to visit your wonderful facility and to meet the staff. She along with her four children were sold on HHV and even though she’s had struggles and difficulties with her health over the past year she’s been improving and thrivi.
What it reported doing in 2024
St. Mary's highland hills, located in watkinsville, ga, provides a friendly senior living community in a warm and comfortable setting. With independent living, assisted living and memory care, st. Mary's highland hills provides the flexibility and support to address each resident's continuing care needs during the later stages of life. The community offers 76 independent living apartments and 52 assisted living apartments. There are 34 alzheimer's and dementia care apartments which are designed to maximize safety and comfort in addition to help decrease stress and confusion. This community offers conference rooms, exercise classes, dining facilities and free transportation to doctor's appointments and shopping, all for the convenience of the residence. Please visit our website for additional information about programs and services: www.highlandhillsvillage.com
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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: 67
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 19.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 308 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: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.