Mayo Clinic

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
416011702
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Rochester, MN, USA
Phone
5075381297
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Community Health Systems

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,929,118,794
Expenses
$6,313,480,074
Assets
$26,682,635,058
Liabilities
$10,173,199,106

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

Leadership & pay

80 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FARRUGIA MD GIANRICO (TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • MORICE MD WILLIAM G (CEO-MCS)

Highest reported compensation

  • FARRUGIA MD GIANRICO (TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT/CEO): $4,888,096 total reported compensation
  • THIELEN MD KENT R (TRUSTEE/VP): $3,206,799 total reported compensation
  • GRAY MD RICHARD J (TRUSTEE/VP): $3,202,023 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Inspiring hope and promoting health through integrated clinical practice, education and research. Innovation:** Infuse and energize the organization, enhancing the lives of those we serve, through the creative ideas and unique talents of each employee. Excellence:** Deliver the best outcomes and highest quality service through the dedicated effort of every team member. Stewardship:** Sustain and reinvest in our mission and extended communities by wisely managing our human, natural and material resources.

What it reported doing in 2024

Patient care (see schedule o for description)patient care: mayo clinic is an integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice. Its standard of care brings together teams of experts to provide high-quality, affordable and compassionate care to each patient consistent with mayo clinic's primary value - the needs of the patient come first. Mayo clinic's mission is to inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research. Mayo clinic's heritage of collaborative medical expertise is combined with careful attention to individual patient needs, resulting in a thorough and personal approach to health care.patient care advanced through education and research is the foundation of mayo clinic's mission. To accomplish its mission, mayo clinic not only provides a variety of programs in direct patient care, medical education and research, but also serves as the parent organization of a multi-entity organization. These organizations consist of hospitals, clinics, health care providers and other entities providing health care-related services and knowledge delivery to the public throughout the world. In rochester, mayo clinic works collaboratively with mayo clinic hospital - rochester, an affiliated entity comprised of saint marys campus and methodist campus to form an integrated medical center dedicated to providing comprehensive diagnoses and treatment in virtually every medical and surgical specialty.mayo clinic is also the sole member of mayo clinic Arizona and mayo clinic jacksonville which provide services to patients in the southwest and southeast regions of the united states. In the midwest, mayo clinic health system serves communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa through a network of community-based physicians to provide quality health care close to home. This network is also supported by the highly specialized expertise and resources of mayo clinic.utilizing common governance, shared systems and standardized policies and procedures whenever possible, mayo clinic strives to provide consistent, high quality health care services and knowledge delivery within every aspect of care. A 31-member board of trustees comprised of a majority of public members along with mayo physicians and administrators ensure the entire organization remains true to its mission and culture of providing for the health care needs of the public rather than for private benefit. Mayo clinic has reinforced its leadership in patient care, research and education to drive forward the transformation of health care over the next decade. With digital innovations and new technologies, mayo clinic is moving quickly to extend its compassionate care, expertise and research, and is reinvesting in people and facilities in the communities it serves. Mayo clinic has accelerated its investment in the digital transformation of health care, as part of its 2030 strategy to transform patient and clinician experiences and solve humanity's most complex medical challenges. Mayo clinic remains top-ranked in quality more than any other health care organization by independent groups, such as the nursing magnet recognition program, press ganey patient experience awards, the centers for medicare & medicaid services overall hospital quality star ratings, leapfrog hospital safety survey and the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program. For the 2024-2025 period, mayo clinic had its hospital (mayo clinic hospital-rochester) named to the best hospitals honor roll by u.s. News & world report, along with being ranked in the top 50 hospitals in 13 medical specialties and earned the highest high-performing rating for all 20 of the evaluated procedures and conditions.mayo clinic offers both specialty and primary care in its community practices and maintains a population health office. It is the charge of mayo's population health committee to transform the way c

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 93.6%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $50.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 56.2%; rating input score 56; 15th 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: 20.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.23; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 93.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 32 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.9B in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4.9M · 80 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $731.3M reported
  • Consistency: 47 of 47 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 295 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 295 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.