Dignity Health
Legal name: Dignity Community Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815009488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6023072100
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,038,974,109
- Expenses
- $3,927,618,518
- Assets
- $5,261,191,941
- Liabilities
- $2,328,284,460
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WRIGHT L LASSITER III (PRESIDENT/ CEO, COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH)
- TERIKA RICHARDSON MPH FACHE (CHAIR/ PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JULIE SPRENGEL (PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA REGION)
- TIM BRICKER (PRESIDENT CENTRAL REGION)
- JON VAN BOENING (FORMER KE (SVP OPERATIONS & CEO, CENTRAL CALIFORNI)
Highest reported compensation
- WRIGHT L LASSITER III (PRESIDENT/ CEO, COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH): $14,175,319 total reported compensation
- TAMMARA WILCOX (SYSTEM SVP PAYER STRATEGY & RELATIONSHIPS (THRU 9/): $9,242,123 total reported compensation
- TERIKA RICHARDSON MPH FACHE (CHAIR/ PRESIDENT & CEO): $8,345,090 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We further the healing ministry of Jesus, dedicated to improving the health of our communities. In the spirit of collaboration and partnership, we are called to provide quality health care services to all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- 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: 99.6%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.5B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14.2M · 32 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $131.8M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 89 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 441 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: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.