St. Francis Hospice
Legal name: The Hospice of St Francis Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475116106
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Titusville, FL, US
- Phone
- 321-269-4240
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $653,966
- Expenses
- $859,589
- Assets
- $1,930,305
- Liabilities
- $298,028
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH KILLIAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH KILLIAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $377,656 total reported compensation
- LISBET VANDENBERG (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $323,526 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded on the principle of neighbors helping neighbors, St. Francis Hospice offers a diverse range of compassionate care services for all ages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hospice of st. Francis d/b/a st. Francis reflections lifestage care, is a nonprofit resource serving brevard county, which spans 72 miles. To effectively support this vast community, st. Francis reflections lifestage care operates from two locations. Beyond its comprehensive community outreach, the hospice of st. Francis foundation, d/b/a st. Francis hospice foundation, engages the community through direct mail, social media, and digital platforms, raising awareness and encouraging support for its programs. While many individuals have encountered hospice care in some capacity often fostering a natural inclination to support its mission there remains a widespread lack of understanding about the full scope of hospice services. St. Francis reflections lifestage care offers a continuum of services including palliative care for those managing chronic illness while still pursuing curative care, to hospice services, to bereavement care for both adults and children, before, during and long after a loss occurs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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; 63rd 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: -31.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $582K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $378K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 6 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.