Mayo Clinic

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383952644
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Rochester, MN, USA
Phone
5075381297
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Community Health Systems

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,891,458,272
Expenses
$14,325,143,800
Assets
$17,859,698,606
Liabilities
$9,183,760,893

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

Leadership & pay

281 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FARRUGIA MD GIANRICO (DIRECTOR/CEO/PRESIDENT)
  • THIELEN MD KENT R (DIRECTOR/CHAIR/CEO FL)
  • GRAY MD RICHARD J (DIR/CHAIR/CEO AZ/FORMER KEY)
  • HALAMKA MD JOHN D (PRESIDENT-MAYO CLINIC PLATFORM)
  • VARKEY MBBS PRATHIBHA (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT MCHS)
  • NOSEWORTHY MD PETER A (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • FARRUGIA MD GIANRICO (DIRECTOR/CEO/PRESIDENT): $4,888,096 total reported compensation
  • THIELEN MD KENT R (DIRECTOR/CHAIR/CEO FL): $3,206,799 total reported compensation
  • GRAY MD RICHARD J (DIR/CHAIR/CEO AZ/FORMER KEY): $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)patient caremayo clinic, as an affiliated group of healthcare entities, is an integrated, not-for-profit group practice and has sites in rochester, Minnesota; scottsdale/phoenix, Arizona; jacksonville, Florida and also serves approximately 40 communities in the upper midwest through the mayo clinic health system. Mayo clinic is driven by its mission of providing the best patient care to every patient, every day through integrated clinical practice, education, and research. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients and are joined by common systems and a philosophy that the needs of the patient come first. There are 17 subordinate organizations from the mayo clinic affiliated group that are part of this group return. Operations include 21 hospital facilities (19 licensed hospitals), numerous clinical facilities, 1 nursing home, 3 elderly/assisted living facilities and 7 chemical dependency treatment centers, an ambulance service organization, 1 foundation-type organization and 1 organization that provides support services (shared services) to mayo clinic, its affiliates and patients.geographically, the subordinates are located in phoenix/scottsdale, Arizona; jacksonville, Florida; southern Minnesota; and western Wisconsin. For purposes of this statement, patient care encompasses patient services (hospitals, clinics & ambulances), housing for the elderly (nursing homes & elderly housing facilities) and the sale of medical products and health information. On an aggregate basis, the hospital subordinates had 4,174 licensed beds at year-end. For the subordinate hospital and clinical practices, the annual patient count (a distinct count of the medical record numbers that received billable medical services) in 2024 exceeded one million patients. In addition, housing for the elderly is provided through the operation of 4 facilities that provide independent living, assisted living and/or long-term care. The subordinates provide care to persons covered by governmental programs. Services are provided to both medicare and medicaid patients at substantial discounts from standard fees. Financial assistance is also provided for patients that are financially unable to pay for services provided. For 2024, the aggregate cost of uncompensated care provided to low income patients through medicaid was approximately $317,559,178. The aggregate cost of uncompensated care provided to patients through medicare was approximately $1,323,794,016. Financial assistance (at cost) provided to patients in 2024 on a combined basis was approximately $87,322,825.the subordinates received donated services from approximately 3,122 community volunteers, who provided approximately 262,450 hours of service in 2024, valued at approximately $9,130,638 based on the independent sector's average estimated hourly value of such services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 63
  • Accountability: 47
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $241.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 25.3%; rating input score 25; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 47 of 186 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.2B in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4.9M · 281 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $681.5M reported
  • Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 486 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 310 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.