Catholic Health
Legal name: Mount St Mary's Hospital of Niagara Falls
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161523353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168282974
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,280,004
- Expenses
- $134,665,909
- Assets
- $161,924,107
- Liabilities
- $122,145,390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joyce Markiewicz (President & CEO Administration CH)
- Martin Boryszak (Senior VP of Acute Care & President Mercy Hospital)
- Megan Aldrich (President of Sisters of Charity Hospital)
- Walter Ludwig (President & CEO KMH)
- Mark Sullivan (President CHS - Former)
Highest reported compensation
- Joyce Markiewicz (President & CEO Administration CH): $1,912,200 total reported compensation
- Mark Sullivan (President CHS - Former): $1,864,539 total reported compensation
- James M Garvey (Executive VP, COO): $1,037,889 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission: We are called to reveal the healing love of Jesus to all. It has long been recognized that emotional and spiritual care play an important role in the medical setting. There is growing evidence that religious beliefs and spirituality bring forth and support the body’s inner healing systems. Resources are available to explore your experience, some of the underlying factors/stressors in life, and their relationship to body-mind-spirit. Mission Advance Directives. Because we believe that everyone has an innate spirituality, but not a common religion, we are committed to serving the spiritual needs of all patients, families and staff whatever the religious tradition. We will gladly contact a minister or rabbi or other spiritual leader upon request. Why Are We Here It has long been recognized that emotional and spiritual care play an important role in the medical setting....
What it reported doing in 2024
Outpatient Routine/Surgery Services: Emergency Visits (Net of Admits) = 36,636Referred Ambulatory Visits = 94,217Operating Room = 8Interventional Radiology = 382Niagara Regional Surgery Center = 4,734
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $111.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 35 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.3M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 19 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.