Carle Health Methodist Hospital
Legal name: Methodist Medical Center of Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 370661223
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Peoria, IL, US
- Phone
- (217) 383-3311
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $498,039,983
- Expenses
- $552,730,707
- Assets
- $278,043,226
- Liabilities
- $285,552,311
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
42 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keith Knepp MD (Ex Officio, Voting // Officer - President, Carle Health - West Region)
- James C Leonard MD (Officer - President & CEO)
- Matthew Kolb JD MHA (Ex Officio, Non-Voting // Officer - President, Carle Health Regions // EVP, COO)
- Mary Thompson (President, Trillium Place)
Highest reported compensation
- James C Leonard MD (Officer - President & CEO): $2,348,482 total reported compensation
- Matthew Kolb JD MHA (Ex Officio, Non-Voting // Officer - President, Carle Health Regions // EVP, COO): $1,752,332 total reported compensation
- Dennis Hesch (Officer - EVP, Chief Finance & Strategy Officer): $1,507,676 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We strive to make exceptional healthcare more accessible for all the communities we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
Health-care services methodist medical center of Illinois is an important element of the healthcare delivery system that the central Illinois communities rely on. It is committed to providing quality healthcare and to using its resources to the greatest community benefit. Methodist medical center of Illinois is a 345-bed facility in peoria, il and provides inpatient and outpatient medical services to treat individuals with diseases, illnesses, and injuries with varying complexities. It provides services to improve the health of patients and to better their quality of life. All services are provided regardless of an individual's race, creed, sex, nationality, handicap, age, or ability to compensate for services rendered. These include, but are not limited to, general acute care, surgeries, home health, intensive care, critical care, mental health care, cardiology, oncology, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, behavioral disorder programs, maternal/child care, laboratory, palliative care, pharmaceutical drugs, emergency services, outpatient clinics, check-ups, and radiology. Some of the services provided do not generate enough profit to offset their cost. In the fiscal period ended december 31, 2024, methodist medical center of Illinois admitted 13,316 patients resulting in a total of 75,803 patient days. Outpatient visits totaled 313,207 and total outpatient surgery registrations for the same period were 6,811. There were also 33,661 emergency room visits and 1,586 babies delivered. Methodist medical center also opened the trillium place young minds center which provides inpatient and outpatient counseling and psychiatry services for children and adolescents in the greater peoria area. Methodist medical center also operates methodist college, a four-year, private, not-for-profit college accredited by the higher learning commission, commission on accreditation of the council on social work education, and commision on accreditation of allied health education programs for the medical assistant certification program. Methodist college offers baccalaureate and master's opportunities in nursing, health science, and social work, bachelor's degree programs, and education opportunities for medical and nursing assistants. 485 students were enrolled during calendar year 2024. The college achieved a 96% pass rate for its baccalaureate students and 100% for its graduate students on the national council licensure (nclex) exam. Data from the national council of state boards of nursing shows the average nclex pass rate in Illinois at 85%. 75% of students enter a career in their field of study within 6 months of graduation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 28th 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: -11%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $487.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.3M · 42 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $29.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 61 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.