The Hospital Cottages for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042104323
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Southborough, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6173323366
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,592,865
- Expenses
- $11,966,939
- Assets
- $6,231,535
- Liabilities
- $4,541,244
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCIS J GRADY (PRESIDENT & CLERK & CEO)
- DORIS DAVILA (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCIS J GRADY (PRESIDENT & CLERK & CEO): $600,345 total reported compensation
- PAUL KEMP (TREASURER & CFO): $480,922 total reported compensation
- THOMAS LAVALLEE (SECRETARY & COO): $480,782 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 company shall promote and provide safe, healthy, quality services and living environments for elders who cannot care for themselves.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility provides a wide range of medical and rehabilitative services, including post-acute care, short-term rehabilitation, respite care, hospice care, and long-term care. Working directly with each resident and their family members, our staff will customize a comprehensive plan of care designed to treat medical complications and achieve functional independence. Our facility provides the highest standards of care and residents enjoy an active and fulfilling lifestyle in an atmosphere of warmth, respect and understanding.
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 88% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: -13%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 70.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $600K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.