Hunterdon Health
Legal name: Hunterdon Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221537688
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Flemington, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 9087886153
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $376,805,855
- Expenses
- $367,791,589
- Assets
- $515,045,752
- Liabilities
- $201,110,046
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK J GAVIN MPH MBA (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK J GAVIN MPH MBA (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,830,367 total reported compensation
- VIOLET T KOCSIS (CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER): $783,316 total reported compensation
- HERBERT WHITE (CFO): $753,225 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 restore, preserve & enhance the health of the community by providing a full range of preventive, diagnostic, holistic & therapeutic inpatient and outpatient hospital and community health services. We work with our generous community to invest in our facilities, our people and our collective future. Over the past five years, a remarkable total of more than 26,000 gifts were made from area residents, grateful patients, local business owners, corporations, foundations, physicians and staff to support Hunterdon Health. Why it's important We rely on your continued support to meet our mission year after year. It allows us to continue providing high quality, compassionate, and cost- effective healthcare services to our community. Annual charitable gifts to Hunterdon Health Foundation provide essential support needed to expand clinical services and programs for our patients, and maintain and.
What it reported doing in 2024
Expenses incurred in providing inpatient, outpatient, emergency and various other medically necessary healthcare services to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay and in furtherance of charitable tax-exempt purposes. Please refer to the community benefit statement in schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 44th 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: 2.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $296.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 28 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.8M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 19 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.