TidalHealth
Legal name: Atlantic General Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521656507
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Salisbury, MD, US
- Phone
- 410-546-6400
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,103,854
- Expenses
- $182,690,000
- Assets
- $142,248,847
- Liabilities
- $83,596,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD OWREY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- MANDY BOUNDS (VICE PRESIDENT OF PATIENT CARE)
Highest reported compensation
- RABINDRA PAUL (PHYSICIAN): $1,466,928 total reported compensation
- ALAE ZARIF (PHYSICIAN): $1,224,029 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN BELL (PHYSICIAN): $718,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TidalHealth’s mission is to improve the health of our communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Atlantic general hospital is a non profit healthcare provider focusing on inpatient and outpatient services for our local community. We also operate multiple physician offices throughout the region that provide family, internal and specialty medicine to our local residents. We had the following key statistics during the 2024 tax year: admissions: 2,728, patient days: 11,060, ed visits: 32,214, surgeries: 6,848, other outpatient visits: 52,137, total visits to our physician practices were 115,019.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 47
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 48th 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: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $147.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.5M · 31 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.4M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.