Dell Children's Medical Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742800601
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
St Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3147338000
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, Specialty

Reported finances

Revenue
$208,342,878
Expenses
$235,334,593
Assets
$38,863,651
Liabilities
$59,819,242

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PHILIP E NEFF MD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SCOTT HERNDON (FORMER OFFICER (END 8/2022)): $1,845,616 total reported compensation
  • DANIEL W HUFFINE (CFO, MINISTRY MARKET (END 1/2025)): $968,125 total reported compensation
  • JACKEE T KAYSER MD (DIRECTOR): $834,229 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words.

What it reported doing in 2024

THE FILING ORGANIZATION IS A PART OF THE ASCENSION CATHOLIC HEALTH MINISTRY. ASCENSION IS A FAITH-BASED HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION THAT DELIVERS PERSONALIZED, COMPASSIONATE CARE TO ALL, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO NEED IT THE MOST. Dell Children's Medical Group ("DCMG") is a non-profit pediatric sub-specialty physician organization that provides specialized care for hospitalized patients and outpatients of the Dell Children's Medical Center (main and north campuses), which serves a 46-county area in Central Texas. The mission of DCMG is to provide comprehensive pediatric subspecialty healthcare services that meet the needs of all children within the communities served. DCMG is widely recognized in Central Texas as a leader in the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with special needs and complex medical conditions. It is the only group of its kind in the region, playing an integral role in the development of a comprehensive, pediatric multi-disciplinary team approach to caring for children. Further, each of the group's pediatric specialists has advanced training in a medical subspecialty. The physicians of DCMG provide state-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment and clinical management of children and adolescents to meet the healthcare needs of patients and organizations in the community. The availability of these essential medical services helps to improve the overall health status of the region and offers young patients personalized care in a child-friendly environment. The physician specialists of DCMG are experts in many different areas of pediatric medicine and provide comprehensive, high quality clinical care for children and adolescents from birth through 18 years of age. The group, originally formed in 1996 with six pediatric subspecialists, has expanded to more than 35 pediatric subspecialists in the areas including: - Pediatric Allergy, Asthma & Immunology - Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery - Pediatric Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery - Pediatric Dermatology - Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Care - Pediatric Epilepsy - Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition - Pediatric Hematology and Oncology - Pediatric Infectious Diseases/Adoption and Travel Clinic - Pediatric Neurology - Pediatric Neurosurgery - Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis Services - Pediatric Ophthalmology - Pediatric Otolaryngology - Pediatric PMR - Palliative Care - Pediatric Rheumatology - Clinical Genetics - Comprehensive Complex Care Clinic - A medical home for children with complex chronic medical conditions In addition, dedicated social workers counsel patients who need assistance connecting with other community resources, including Any Baby Can, Texas Neuro Rehab, LifeWorks, Capital Area ARC and Halo. Assistance also is provided to assist patients who qualify for Medicaid, the Austin/Travis County Medical Assistance Program and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Involvements: 1. Project Access: Travis County Medical Society program to provide free care to uninsured in the community in collaboration with hospital and primary care service providers. 2. Camp Bluebonnet: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program participates in this camp for cancer and blood disorder patients and their families. 3. Heartgift Program: Physicians provide medical services for pediatric cardiac patients from foreign countries who travel to Austin for care. 4. Camp Okawehna: Nephrology participates in this camp for kids on dialysis or with kidney transplants. 5. Camp Bluebonnet: Endocrinology Program participates in this camp for kids with diabetes. 6. Participate in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigation (PALISI). We are conducting National Institute for Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and corporately-sponsored multi-center clinical research. We are studying new therapies for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and the courses of critical pertussis and influenza infections. 7. Serve as teaching faculty for pediatric resi

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: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 28
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.54; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $216M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.6M reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 377 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.