Pittsburgh Mercy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
251604115
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Phone
1-877-637-2924
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Health Systems

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$107,749,173
Expenses
$113,575,699
Assets
$216,932,973
Liabilities
$152,589,248

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANTONIO BELTRAN (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CEO THR 4/25)
  • JAIME DIRCKSEN (DIRECTOR; INTERIM PRES/CEO AT 4/25)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANTONIO BELTRAN (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CEO THR 4/25): $631,852 total reported compensation
  • BRENT HARLAN MD (PSYCHIATRIST): $454,966 total reported compensation
  • TODD WAHRENBERGER MD (CMO, PSYCHIATRIST): $383,957 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To be a compassionate and transforming, healing presence within our communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mercy life center is located in pittsburgh, pa and provides a variety of services, including mental health, intellectual disabilities, alcohol and other drugs, crisis center, integrated health care, child abuse, homeless medical services, and a parish nurse and health ministry program. Mercy life center has a wide range of facilities located throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.mercy life center is comprised of mercy behavioral health, mercy intellectual disabilities services, mercy community health services, and pittsburgh mercy family health center.mercy behavioral health was established in 1969 and is the largest entity within mercy life center. Mercy behavioral health serves children, adolescents, adults, families, and senior citizens in nearly 60 neighborhoods throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. Mercy behavioral health provides recovery-oriented, community-based mental health and drug treatment and prevention services. Mercy intellectual disabilities services offer a variety of programs to provide opportunities for socialization and employment. Services include securing volunteer work, providing vocational training, arranging housing that matches the amount of supervision needed, or providing community opportunities and home care for those living with their families. The services are designed to improve the quality of life for everyone involved.mercy community health services promotes the mission of mercy community health, to be a regional leader in delivering comprehensive, high-quality, patient-centered holistic health care. This includes increasing health literacy, improving health and improving the social determinants of health by decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors of the most vulnerable that we serve. Mercy community health delivers prevention and early intervention services, homeless services, and integrated, whole person primary care.operation safety net, a division of mercy community services, started in 1992 and provides health care to the homeless. Operation safety net is recognized as one of the nation's first, targeted, full-time street medicine programs. Programs include street outreach, walking teams of clinicians providing care in the streets, a medical services mobile van, a drop-in clinic, and case management services.pittsburgh mercy family health center is a person-centered medical home. The center serves the physical and behavioral health care needs of adults, children, and families, all in one convenient location. Services include primary care, in-office lab, women's health care, diagnostic screening tests, immunizations, and many more. Please visit the website for additional information: www.pittsburghmercy.org

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 40th 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: -5.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd 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: 86% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $632K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 308 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.