The Miriam Hospital
Overview
Mission
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, The Miriam Hospital (TMH) is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care. Offering a safe, comprehensive approach to treating adult and teen obesity, the award-winning Center for Medical and Surgical Weight Loss provides personalized, quality care and multidisciplinary services ranging from long-term nutritional and behavior modification and patient support groups to a full complement of bariatric surgeries and state-of-the-art laparoscopic and minimally invasive technologies. Center for Medical and Surgical Weight Loss Online Orientation Minimally Invasive Urology Institute.
What it reported doing in 2023
Research: TMH has 428 research projects with total expenses of $51.7 million in fiscal year 2024 (106 investigators and 170 employees). TMH conducts extensive medical research and is in the forefront of biomedical health care delivery research and among the leaders nationally in National Institutes of Health programs. TMH also sponsors a significant level of these research activities. Federal support accounts for approximately ???% of all externally funded research at TMH. Researchers focus on clinical trials which investigate prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiac disease, and mental health concerns. Included in total program expenses and revenue are $??? K of research grants from for-profit organizations that are not reported in Schedule H.(See Schedule O).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050258905
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Headquarters
- Providence, RI, United States
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the website gives limited detail about important organizational relationships.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 1 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.11; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $633.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.7M · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2023
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 39 filed related-organization links