The Lodge Life Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232063004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175093296
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $952,239
- Expenses
- $912,659
- Assets
- $1,765,156
- Liabilities
- $1,345,582
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HELEN D STOUDT (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- HELEN D STOUDT (PRESIDENT/CEO): $89,590 total reported compensation
- LINDA LAMBERT (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $81,649 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide the opportunity to achieve the highest level of independence through the promotion of empowerment, responsibility and self-reliance. The operational goal of the lodge life services, inc. Is the assessment, development and implementation of services designed to meet the on-going needs of the consumer.
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential services -provides those individuals who are formerly homeless and who experience mental illness with an array of support services designed to build skills and support a person's independence and self-reliance. Current residential housing opportunities include the lincoln house, fordney road apartments, park avenue apartments, mount joy senior housing, and dial apartments all of which are located in and around lancaster city.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $726K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.