Sunshine Communities

Legal name: Sunshine Inc Residential & Support Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
344441627
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Maumee, Ohio, United States
Phone
419.865.0251
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Homes

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$33,094,873
Expenses
$33,480,382
Assets
$45,368,506
Liabilities
$7,555,380

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON ABODEELY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON ABODEELY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $286,386 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL BOGDAN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $174,038 total reported compensation
  • DEBORAH RASSMUSSON (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $146,509 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The Sunshine Communities leadership team draws from their extensive knowledge to guide our organization to new heights within a culture of inclusivity, respect, and continuous learning to empower our employees and the people we serve.

What it reported doing in 2024

To achieve this mission, sunshine's residential & vocational services offers a wide array of services and supports for men, women and children with developmental disabilities and their loved ones. Over the last year, sunshine residential and vocational services supported more than 281 individuals with developmental disabilities, including those that reside in intermediate care facilities (icfs), in waiver family care homes, in a person's own home and in vocational settings. Over the last several years, sunshine residential services has also begun supporting more children residentially. Currently 18 children with complex needs call sunshine their home. Continued on schedule omany of the individuals we support have complex medical and mental health conditions. For that reason, sunshine's residential and vocational services also offers both medical and clinical services that include nursing care, as well as, speech, occupational and physical therapy. These services are offered in a variety of adaptive settings, including sunshine's therapeutic pool. Sunshine also offers unique support for people dependent on ventilators, enabling them to live in a home setting rather than a hospital or similar medical facility, and encouraging them to be active in the community around them. The way sunshine staff and leadership provide these services and supports is critical. Decisions are guided by person-centered planning, an individual's choice, as well as, the call to create community, a mission rooted in the values of empathy, mutuality, spirituality, integrity, and stewardship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: -1.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $286K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.2M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.