Transplant House of West Michigan

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871688157
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Phone
6165505787
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Temporary Housing

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$93,046
Expenses
$64,870
Assets
$331,938
Liabilities
$118,456

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tracy Gary (President)

People named in this filing

  • Tracy Gary (President)
  • Holly Werlein-Gary (Secretary)
  • Jake Cook (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their transplant journey. The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to lessen the stress and financial burden on the families of transplant patients. Compassion, support, and a comforting home away from home is what we want to help provide. The Transplant House of West Michigan's goal is to have every transplant family in West Michigan have a home away from home to go to while they are going through the transplant process with a group of others going through the same for support.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their transplant journey. The Transplant House of West Michigan was founded by two transplant recipients brought together by the gift of organ donation. We understand the hardships and want to help provide a supportive, affordable, and temporary home away from home for recipients, caregivers and those going through the transplant process. The Transplant House of West Michigan is intentionally located only a few miles away from West Michigan's largest hospital system to ensure that family is close during the transplant process. The organization is raising funds in order to support a multi-unit home that will be rented on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to patients and families going through the organ transplant process at below market cost or no cost. The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to lessen the stress and financial burden on the families of transplant patients. Compassion, support, and a comforting home away from home is what we want to help provide. The Transplant House of West Michigan's goal is to have every transplant family in West Michigan have a home away from home to go to while they are going through the transplant process with a group of others going through the same for support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.12; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 92.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 60.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.