RWJBarnabas Health

Legal name: Children's Specialized Hospital

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
221487148
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2018
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2018
Location
Mountainside, NJ, USA
Phone
9733224032
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$148,126,429
Expenses
$142,085,023
Assets
$192,429,420
Liabilities
$63,836,297

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENFU CHENG MD (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT MED STAFF)
  • WARREN E MOORE (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMY B MANSUE (TRUSTEE - RWJBH PRES. S. DIV.): $1,877,864 total reported compensation
  • WARREN E MOORE (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,351,393 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER HAINES DO FACEP (VP/CMO (TERMED 6/12/18)): $856,250 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. We are one of the only programs in the state to offer blood and marrow transplantation and CAR T-cell therapy for both adults and pediatrics and are home to the state’s only hospital-based proton therapy center. RWJBarnabas Health together with Rutgers Cancer Institute is also the highest volume pancreatic cancer surgery program in New Jersey. Our outstanding multidisciplinary teams of oncologists, nurses, oncology nurse navigators, and support professionals, ensure a compassionate, and comprehensive approach to diagnosing and treating all types of cancer. They work closely together to provide individualized treatment plans for each patient to address your specific cancer. Patients are provi.

What it reported doing in 2018

Expenses incurred in providing medically necessary inpatient rehabilitation services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. The organization incurred 19,425 patient days from the provision of inpatient rehabilitation services in 2018. Please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 73.9%; rating input score 74; 25th 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: 4.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th 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: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $127.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 35 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.5M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 94 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.