Visiting Nurse Association of Porter County Indiana Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351174866
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Valparaiso, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2194625195
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Home Health Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,737,548
- Expenses
- $8,878,319
- Assets
- $5,862,622
- Liabilities
- $1,766,338
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT FRANKO (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT FRANKO (PRESIDENT & CEO): $201,156 total reported compensation
- HOLLY DOHERTY (COO\CLINICAL DIRECTOR): $156,839 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE OLSON (HR DIRECTOR): $132,262 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 organization's mission is to provide compassionate hospice care in an innovative and personalized manner to those in need, within the resources available, enabling them to preserve their dignity and maintain their highest level of independence. The organization serves patients in porter county as well as portions of lake, jasper, starke, and laporte counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
The vna hospice program brings comfort to persons living with a terminal illness and provides support to them as well as to their families. Patients are able to live their final days with peace and dignity through effective pain management and symptom control in addition to psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual support. Vna's hospice care is provided by an interdisciplinary team of caregivers, including the patient's physician, registered nurses, social workers, volunteers, clergy, occupational and physical therapists, chaplains, aides and dieticians in the patient's home, nursing home, assisted living facility or at the vna arthur b. And ethel v. Horton hospice center. For the year ended september 30, 2025, hospice services were provided to 854 patients comprising over 21,213 days of service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -1.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $201K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.