Children's Physician Services of South Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742620408
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Corpus Christi, TX, US
- Phone
- 361-694-5000
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,462,048
- Expenses
- $162,893,755
- Assets
- $10,815,011
- Liabilities
- $290,295
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH GARZA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN M LANGLEY MD (CARDIOVASCULAR SURGEON): $2,927,190 total reported compensation
- ALLISTER ARNOLD MD (RADIOLOGIST): $2,112,241 total reported compensation
- ASHLEY K HANNA MD (NEUROSURGEON): $1,965,720 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health… Improve the health of children and you give them their life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of children's physician services of south Texas is to provide medical services to those individuals in the south Texas region who could not afford to pay for such services. The funds received from those able to pay for medical services and funds received to train doctors at driscoll children's hospital enable the organization to employ enough physicians so as to put in place a program that provides medical care for children in need. This program provides medical care to children regardless of their ability to pay.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -42.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.9M · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.3M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.