Montefiore Einstein
Legal name: Montefiore Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131740114
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9143498455
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,908,041,192
- Expenses
- $5,619,420,589
- Assets
- $4,988,192,084
- Liabilities
- $5,045,748,871
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
42 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHILIP O OZUAH MD PHD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PHILIP O OZUAH MD PHD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $16,690,037 total reported compensation
- ROBERT MICHLER MD (CHAIR-SURG/CARDIOTHORACIC SURG): $4,995,055 total reported compensation
- COLLEEN M BLYE (EXEC VP & CFO): $4,280,008 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Montefiore Einstein is a premier academic health system renowned for pushing the boundaries in every arena, from research to discoveries of life-saving cures, from innovations in patient care, to advancements in public health, and to world-class medical education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Patient care doing more - it's how we created our history of firsts. It's why we developed the world's first transvenous cardiac pacemaker and performed the world's first coronary bypass. Doing more put us at the forefront of treating cancer with highly targeted therapies. It made us one of only a few hospitals in the u.s. Performing surgeries on babies before they're born. It built one of the most active and successful transplant centers in the country. Doing more - it's how we are creating the future of healthcare. Established in 1884 as a hospital for patients with chronic illnesses, montefiore is a full-service integrated healthcare delivery system serving a large and complex urban population, a distinguished academic medical center with renowned faculty, an innovative research center pioneering scientific breakthroughs and medical "firsts an exceptionally dedicated community partner with an unparalleled roster of innovative programs and services that address needs ranging far beyond medical care. Montefiore's mission is to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities it serves. To this mission montefiore brings a unique synergy of strengths and resources. The montefiore delivery system offers a full range of healthcare services (preventive, primary, specialty, acute and post acute) to the nearly 2 million residents of the bronx, New York and nearby westchester county. Montefiore also serves as a tertiary care referral center for patients across the metropolitan area, the nation and the world, and is known for advanced care in numerous specialties, including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, children's health, tissue and organ transplantation, women's health, surgery and surgical subspecialties. Montefiore combines its deep commitment to the community with nationally renowned expertise to reach people at convenient locations. Through the montefiore school health program (the largest and most comprehensive school-based health program in the country), primary care at home programs, mobile medical and dental health vans and health education initiatives, montefiore provides primary care services in non-traditional settings. Montefiore is increasingly recognized for its success in delivering high-quality care to a large urban community, harnessing the power of health information technology and using care management tools to improve quality, safety and outcomes while controlling costs. To help patients, especially those with chronic diseases, achieve a better quality of life and reduced hospitalizations, montefiore goes beyond the fragmented fee-for-service payment system, assuming total responsibility for the quality and costs of care for some of its sickest patients. Through the montefiore ipa, inc. (mipa), the care management company, llc (cmo) and bronx accountable healthcare network ipa, inc., dba montefiore accountable care organization ipa (aco), a global prepayment strategy is used to manage care over the continuum, including hospital care, rehabilitation, outpatient care, professional services, remote patient monitoring and other programs. At the center of the medical system are six main campuses with a total of 1,558 licensed beds that provided over 80,234 inpatient admissions in 2024, including over 3,500 births and extensive ambulatory care services: - the 680 bed henry and lucy moses division; - the 421 bed jack d. Weiler hospital of albert einstein college of medicine; - the 136 bed children's hospital at montefiore, recognized as one of "america's best children's hospitals" in u.s. News & world report's rankings; - the 321 bed wakefield division (formerly the north division renamed to reflect its anchor role in the community); - montefiore westchester square (the former New York westchester square hospital) operating as a free-standing emergency department and ambulatory surgery facility; - the montefiore hutchinson campus - the innovative "hospital without beds" providing wo
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.4%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.9%; rating input score 94; 45th 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: 4.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 33 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16.7M · 42 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $144.8M reported
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 74 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.