Mass General Brigham
Legal name: Mass General Brigham Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043230035
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Somerville, MA, USA
- Phone
- 857-282-2355
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,444,998,724
- Expenses
- $2,112,385,140
- Assets
- $10,862,924,959
- Liabilities
- $7,710,692,045
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
45 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNE KLIBANSKI MD (PRESIDENT, CEO & DIRECTOR)
- DAVID F M BROWN MD FACEP (PRESIDENT, AMC)
- GREGG S MEYER MD MSC (FORMER PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY DIV.)
Highest reported compensation
- ANNE KLIBANSKI MD (PRESIDENT, CEO & DIRECTOR): $9,180,758 total reported compensation
- GREGG S MEYER MD MSC (FORMER PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY DIV.): $4,300,635 total reported compensation
- RON M WALLS MD (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $4,149,816 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mass General Brigham remains enormously grateful for the generosity of our donors and the critical role our donors play in advancing our charitable mission. We value the trust that donors place in us and look forward to continuing to share more information with donors about the remarkable health care delivery, scientific research, and education happening in our outstanding member institutions. Mass General Brigham is committed to furthering its charitable mission of advancing patient care, scientific research, education, and community service. Mass General Brigham’s unique collaboration among its member institutions, which provide a spectrum of care, enables us to deliver the highest quality.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.6%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 9
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 68%; rating input score 68; 20th 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: 13.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.14; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 9.6% of revenue deployed · 9.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $200.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $9.2M · 45 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $95.5M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 74 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 140 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.