West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721341439
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sulphur, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3375274147
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $867,126
- Expenses
- $183,677
- Assets
- $5,442,533
- Liabilities
- $1,433,248
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Farnum (Vice President)
- Denise Perry (President)
- Matthew Welsh (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ken Broussard (Board Member)
- Karen Farnum (Vice President)
- Marilyn Dawdy (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of the West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation to raise charitable gifts to provide quality medical services, healthcare programs, and community betterment while fostering a long-term positive relationship between the hospital and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
To establish and perpetuate community wide health awareness and health status improvement programs. Conduct and coordinate fundraising efforts for funds to be dedicated for the benefit of West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital. Management of a gift shop by volunteer labor. Funds derived from the gift shop sales will be utilized for purchases of capital equipment for West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.2%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 78.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 29.63; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $184K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 22 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.