Dignity Health
Legal name: Dignity Health Hospital and Professional Liability Self-insurance Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943006034
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- 4154385500
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Insurance Providers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,275,072
- Expenses
- $18,904,757
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LLOYD H DEAN (PRESIDENT/ CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LLOYD H DEAN (PRESIDENT/ CEO): $14,647,374 total reported compensation
- DANIEL J MORISSETTE CPA (SEVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $3,734,853 total reported compensation
- MITCH MELFI ESQ JD (SECRETARY/CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER): $2,153,525 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We passionately care for the most vulnerable, relentlessly innovate how and where healing can happen and believe in uniting to benefit the common good.
What it reported doing in 2020
Administration of professional and general liability self-insurance program and obtainment of other group insurance coverage for affiliated charitable healthcare organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 44
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- 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: 41.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14.6M · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $28.1M reported
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 367 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.