Mercy
Legal name: Mercy Hospital South
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430980256
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3145251000
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $709,067,431
- Expenses
- $662,157,959
- Assets
- $539,437,492
- Liabilities
- $49,306,905
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HOGAN SEAN JOSEPH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MATEJKA CHERYL L (FORMER OFFICER): $2,345,497 total reported compensation
- HOGAN SEAN JOSEPH (PRESIDENT): $1,443,699 total reported compensation
- JOHNSTON JEFFREY A (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE): $1,306,639 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transforming the Health of Our Communities Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 195 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who was determined to help women and children in Dublin experiencing poverty. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill that dream. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, one of the first religious orders whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mercy hospital south 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 hospital south provides a wide variety of services in their 600 bed facility and in fy25, had 451,918 total cases. Mercy hospital south offers comprehensive heart and vascular services, a wide variety of treatment options and advanced technologies to diagnose and treat a full range of conditions. Mercy hospital south also provides a full complement of cardiac rehabilitation, therapy and education services. In fy25, mercy hospital south had 41,831 cases and 16,803 patient days for this service line.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- 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: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 22nd 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: 6.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $604.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.3M · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $54.5M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 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: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 91 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.