Mercy Health East Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431718408
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chesterfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3143643553
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,339,198
- Expenses
- $88,156,911
- Assets
- $384,355,239
- Liabilities
- $67,278,593
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEINERS MD DAVID (COMMUNITY PRESIDENT - HOSPITAL)
- EOLOFF ERIC J (COMMUNITY PRESIDENT (THRU 10/2024))
- HOGAN SEAN JOSEPH (MHS PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MACKIN STEPHEN L (FORMER OFFICER): $8,335,401 total reported compensation
- MATEJKA CHERYL L (FORMER OFFICER): $2,345,497 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 health east communities is exempt from federal income tax as an organization described in irc section 501(c)(3) and qualifies as a public charity under irc section 509(a)(3).mercy health east communities and its subsidiaries provide high-quality, compassionate, faith-based care in a variety of traditional medical settings. This organization provides services to the communities we serve, with particular concern for the economically poor, in the way of inpatient hospital services, outpatient services, emergency room care, and physician clinic office visits.mercy health east communities is a supporting organization of mercy hospitals east communities and mercy clinic east communities. Mercy health east communities also provides support services to other members of the mercy east community, including mercy hospital jefferson, mercy hospital lincoln, and mercy hospital south. The support services include functions that, but for mercy health east communities, would be conducted by each separate organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 0th 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: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th 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: -3.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.36; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $100.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8.3M · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.1M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 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
- Related organizations: 89 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.