Mercy
Legal name: Mercy Clinic East Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431771217
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chesterfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 405-615-6674
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $804,629,365
- Expenses
- $1,048,296,640
- Assets
- $160,387,349
- Liabilities
- $201,677,832
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CIARAMITA MD JEFFREY (PRESIDENT, SPEC SERVICE LINES - MERCY HEALTH & BM)
Highest reported compensation
- MATEJKA CHERYL L (FORMER OFFICER): $2,345,497 total reported compensation
- CIARAMITA MD JEFFREY (PRESIDENT, SPEC SERVICE LINES - MERCY HEALTH & BM): $1,924,208 total reported compensation
- CHALK MD DAVID E (REGIONAL PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE): $1,706,641 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mercy clinic east communities provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay by offering essential health services to its community. In active pursuit of this mission, mercy clinic east communities provides a wide variety of services in their clinic facilities and in fy25, had 2,941,991 total cases. Mercy clinic east communities has a team of pediatricians, family medicine and internal medicine doctors who can handle all your routine health care needs. Mercy's primary care providers help with annual checkups, preventive care and health screenings, vaccinations and immunizations, diagnosis and care for common illnesses and minor injuries, and managing medicines. In fy25, mercy clinic east communities had 970,298 cases for this service line.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.26; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 23 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.3M · 38 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 126 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 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.