Recently private company Everstory Partners, who may be the 2nd largest Death Care services company in North America ranked on revenue, published an impressive “Year in Review” document that you can access here.

LIlly Donohue
Everstory CEO

In an opening letter from the document company President and CEO Lilly Donohue makes this statement, “In 2025, Everstory Partners continued
the quiet, disciplined work of building a stronger company – one grounded in trust, accountability, and care. We focused on what matters most: investing in our people, strengthening our operations and facilities, improving service consistency, and restoring confidence with families and communities we serve.”

Some of the the impressive numbers reported in the document can be found here:

• 54.9% increase in net operating income
• 2,844 4- and 5-star reviews
• 66,603 families served
• 2,525 total employees
• More than $430 million in revenue
• 116,467 work orders completed
• 16.2% increase in pre-need sales

The report also indicates that Everstory Partners now operates 430 facilities — of which 374 are cemeteries, 73 are funeral homes, and 13 are crematories.  In looking at a map of the facilities it appears that all but about a dozen or so are located east of the Mississippi River.

Tom Anderson
Funeral Director Daily

Funeral Director Daily take:  Everstory Partners is the successor company to what many of us in the profession knew for a long period of time as StoneMor Partners which was a publicly operated company.  StoneMor Partners was taken private by Axar Capital Management and re-branded in late 2022 and because of the private nature of Everstory Partners we no longer get a public financial picture of the company. (Here’s the Funeral Director Daily article of November 7, 2022, memorializing that event).

However, in watching press releases and getting information on capital improvements one can see that Everstory Partners is putting a bounce back into what had, in my opinion, become a moribund company that was debt-laden with no apparent direction prior to the take private movement.

It also appears to me that Everstory Partners is using public perception of their services to improve and move forward.  A graphic in the Year in Review document shows that Google reviews on the company have more than doubled in number since the Everstory re-brand and the graphic also shows that the average review has moved from an approximate 3.4 Star review to a current 4.4 Star review.  In a historically traditional “long-game” business, I think that is very impressive.

I’m excited to see the Everstory Partners story improve in what appears to be both finances and public perception and I am betting that it will continue that movement into the future.

More news from the world of Death Care:

• St. X snaps up mortuary school campus in $7.2 million Finneytown deal.  Hoodline – Cincinnati  (OH)
• UK funeral director deceived families over cremations and stole charity donations.  Reuters
• Redirecting funeral directors.  The Retail Bulletin (Great Britain)

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