Luther Manor
Legal name: United Lutheran Program for the Aging Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390981434
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wauwatosa, WI, USA
- Phone
- (414) 253-2322
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,388,920
- Expenses
- $33,139,745
- Assets
- $52,364,342
- Liabilities
- $29,707,828
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE CHEDID (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- STEVEN WATSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LUTHER MANOR FOUNDATION)
- SHERMAN MILLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE CHEDID (PRESIDENT & CEO): $442,158 total reported compensation
- KAREN GIBBS (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $211,956 total reported compensation
- PATRICK HANSEN (CHIEF EXPERIENCE OFFICER): $201,848 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Luther Manor’s mission is to share God’s love by enriching the lives of older adults. Since we laid the cornerstone of Luther Manor in 1960, our unwavering mission has been to share God’s love by enriching the lives of older adults. Our journey began in the fall of 1956 when Rev. William B. Downey, pastor of Fox Point Lutheran Church, appointed a committee to study the needs of the area’s older adults and how to best meet them. The committee recommended building a 65-person care center to serve the aging population of the greater Milwaukee area. From this, the nonprofit, faith-based United Lutheran Program for the Aging (ULPA) was born with the mission to advocate for the needs of older adults of all faiths. After years of planning, the ULPA purchased an expansive park-like s.
What it reported doing in 2024
Luther manor health care center provides skilled nursing care and services for the frail elderly. Within the health care center is a dedicated rehabilitation center. The program also offers medical staff and oversight through a contract with froedtert community physicians and a partnership with froedtert health system. Luther manor also partners with leading, national services organizations to provide residents with personalized physical, speech, respiratory and occupational therapies, as well as psychiatric services, podiatry and dental care - all on site. The facility is licensed for participation in both medicare and medicaid.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $76.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st 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: 0.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $28.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $442K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 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: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.