Brio Living Services
Legal name: United Methodist Retirement Communities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381366908
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chelsea, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7344331000
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,671,446
- Expenses
- $44,611,495
- Assets
- $133,435,748
- Liabilities
- $62,385,596
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Fetyko (President & CEO)
- Kathy Russell (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Steve Fetyko (President & CEO): $552,720 total reported compensation
- Nicole Maag (Chief of Residential Services): $334,986 total reported compensation
- Kalen Carlson (CFO): $307,557 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Welcoming all, partnering together, enriching lives. FAITH-BASED/NON-PROFIT DIFFERENCE -** Brio Living Services was founded on a faith-based, nonprofit service model, which always puts those we serve first. This allows us to prioritize the needs of the people we serve rather than the monetary goals of acquisitive investors. Learn more about our mission and values. COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIP - **Brio Living Services is involved in many community groups, organizations, and events in the Michigan area. We strive to ensure that our residents and even seniors in the surrounding communities have access to helpful resources. See our list of organizations that we partner with! LEADERSHIP -** Our legacy of visionary leadership began in 1906 based on our f.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chelsea retirement community and the cedars of dexter provided long term nursing and residential care to approximately 431 residents during 2024-2025, including benevolent care to many who were unable to pay for the full cost of their own care. Umrc hs been a leader in caring for older adults since its faithful founding in 1906. With tradition of exceptional quality and committment to cutting edge care, today umrc offers Michigan's most diverse continuum of housing options and services across 12 counties to older adults of all income levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 6.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $553K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.3M reported
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 17 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.