Sharp HealthCare
Legal name: Grossmont Hospital Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330449527
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, United States
- Phone
- 8584995150
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,132,662,700
- Expenses
- $1,127,013,789
- Assets
- $1,693,204,898
- Liabilities
- $294,094,305
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER D HOWARD (PRESIDENT & CEO SHC)
- WILLIAM S EVANS (SVP MARKET CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER D HOWARD (PRESIDENT & CEO SHC): $2,750,617 total reported compensation
- RICK L GROSSMAN (SVP GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,451,213 total reported compensation
- SUSAN GREEN (EVP & CFO SHC): $1,436,739 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Sharp HealthCare, it is our mission to improve the health of everyone we serve. statement At Sharp HealthCare, our mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all that we do. Our goal is to offer quality care and services that set community standards, exceed patients' expectations and are provided in a caring, convenient, cost-effective and accessible manner. Our vision. At Sharp HealthCare, our mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all that we do. Our vision Sharp will transform the health care experience and be:.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grossmont hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services to the community. Patient days were 145,329 and outpatient visits were 350,191 for the twelve months ended 9/30/25. See community benefit report on schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 22nd 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: 0.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.8M · 34 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.