Banner Health

Overview

Mission

Making health care easier, so life can be better. Banner Health is one of the nation's largest nonprofit health systems, serving communities across six states with 33 hospital locations, more than 400 outpatient sites, health insurance plans and nearly 60,000 team members. We don’t answer to shareholders. We answer to our neighbors, families and the patients we serve every day. What makes us different? We're fully integrated. We deliver advanced care, manage insurance for more than 1 million members, conduct groundbreaking research and train the next generation of physicians, all working together under one mission driven system. This integration means easier access, better coordinated care, more affordable costs and health issues addressed.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

STRONG - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 75
• Transparency & Controls: 81
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 71
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.5B in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $13.5M · 37 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.5B reported
• Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
• Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 110 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 135 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.