Rhode Island Hospital | Brown University Health
Overview
Mission
Delivering health with care.
What it reported doing in 2023
Patient Care: RIH is the State's largest hospital, and its only Level I trauma center and verified burn center. It provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic health care services to inpatients and outpatients. RIH has particular expertise in cancer, cardiology, diabetes, emergency medicine, neurosciences, orthopedics, and more. Hasbro Children's Hospital (HCH), RIH's pediatric division, is the region's premier provider of pediatric clinical care. HCH offers a broad spectrum of both routine care and specialty programs not available elsewhere and has the only pediatric emergency department, Level I trauma center, pediatric critical care teams, and 24-hour ambulance in the region. (Continued on Schedule O)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050258954
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Headquarters
- Providence, RI, US
- 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 some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 20th 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: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.87; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.7M · 37 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 42 filed related-organization links