John Muir Health
Legal name: John Muir Physician Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680360801
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- (925) 941-2001
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $519,192,918
- Expenses
- $529,027,075
- Assets
- $167,418,772
- Liabilities
- $113,492,897
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL S THOMAS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL S THOMAS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $3,802,506 total reported compensation
- JANE WILLEMSEN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $2,193,709 total reported compensation
- MAUREEN STEVENSON MD (CAO): $1,288,646 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 improve the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion. We are dedicated to improving the health of the communities we serve with quality and compassion. Our Vision. Our Vision Our vision is to make John Muir Health California's premier community health system, by efficiently delivering top-tier quality and access, through enduring partnership with our physicians and employees. In other words, sustainable excellence - for our patients, through our people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Clinic operations: the clinic operations division provides primary care and urgent care services to over 580,000 patients at more than 70 practices throughout the service area. The physician network's primary care and urgent care centers are staffed by approximately 245 primary care physicians (family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics) and advanced practice providers affiliated with john muir medical group, inc., a California professional corporation.in addition to the foregoing, the clinic operations division operates the physician network's osteoporosis center and hospitalist program. The network also has specialty physicians in cardiology, colorectal cancer, rheumatology, obstetrics, oncology, general surgery, gastroenterology and urology.the john muir health physician network received elite status from america's physician groups for the 14th consecutive year based upon how well-equipped and organized the network is to deliver a high-quality patient experience, coordinate care and provide for population health programs, while at the same time improving the overall affordability of health care services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -1.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $426.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.8M · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $208.2M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.