Endeavor Health

Legal name: Edward Hospital

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363297173
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Evanston, IL, US
Phone
(224) 364-7600
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$908,340,314
Expenses
$711,399,981
Assets
$704,568,758
Liabilities
$127,453,325

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

Leadership & pay

43 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joseph Dant (President, South Region/Trustee)
  • Gerald P Gallagher (System President & CEO)
  • Yvette Saba (President, Edward Hospital)

Highest reported compensation

  • Gerald P Gallagher (System President & CEO): $5,191,626 total reported compensation
  • Douglas D Welday (System Treasurer and CFO): $2,184,620 total reported compensation
  • Joseph Dant (President, South Region/Trustee): $1,476,739 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To help everyone in our communities be their best.

What it reported doing in 2024

Endeavor Health Edward Hospital, which opened in 1907, is a full-service, regional healthcare provider offering access to complex medical specialties and innovative programming, with more than 80 medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Edward Hospital has earned a reputation as a healthcare leader by providing advanced cardiac care, state-of-the-art cancer diagnosis and treatment and world class stroke care. Home to the first heart hospital in Illinois, Edward Hospital was also the first in Illinois to open an Outpatient Cath Lab and perform the world's first minimally invasive cryoballoon procedure to treat atrial fibrillation. Today, Edward Hospital is still the largest non-academic provider of heart care in Illinois. Edward Hospital is a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center and is home to the first Pediatric Emergency Department in DuPage County and have a Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Edward serves the residents of Chicago's west and southwest suburbs, including Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove, Homer Glen, Joliet, Lemont, lisle, Lockport, Minooka, Oswego, Plainfield, Romeoville, Shorewood, Warrenville, Wheaton, Woodridge and Yorkville. During 2024, Edward Hospital celebrated its fifth consecutive Magnet designation, a significant milestone that included distinct commendations for their outstanding exemplars in nursing practice and patient outcomes. Edward Hospital's Hyperbaric and Wound Clinic received accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). UHMS accreditation means our facility has met or exceeded the highest standards of care and patient safety through rigorous evaluation of our operations, including equipment, staff and training to ensure that the utmost quality is maintained within the specialty of undersea and hyperbaric medicine. Edward is the only hyperbaric program certified in Illinois.

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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 67
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 92.4%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th 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: 21.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $649.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.2M · 43 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $20.1M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 40 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.