Nationwide Children's Hospital
Legal name: Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010782751
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 1-614-722-2000
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,325,096,802
- Expenses
- $4,022,202,237
- Assets
- $8,990,538,332
- Liabilities
- $1,849,864,992
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
99 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Timothy C Robinson (DIRECTOR / CEO - NCH)
- Dennis Durbin MD (PRESIDENT - RINCH)
- Melissa Graves (President - CCFA (AS OF 3/24))
- Nancy Cunningham (Interim President - CCFA (TO 3/24))
- Sean Gleeson MD (PRESIDENT - PFK)
- Amy Roscoe (VICE PRESIDENT - RINCH)
Highest reported compensation
- Mark Galantowicz MD (CHIEF OF CT SURGERY - CSA): $2,216,792 total reported compensation
- Timothy C Robinson (DIRECTOR / CEO - NCH): $2,187,047 total reported compensation
- Jerry Mendell MD (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IV - RINCH): $2,000,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Inc. is committed to carrying out its mission ethically and in compliance with applicable federal and state laws and federal healthcare program requirements. We routinely seek input from others and always support our colleagues Promote Health and Well Being We balance work and life demands. Nationwide Children's Hospital is committed to best outcomes and health equity for all children, ensuring every child has access to the best care regardless of their ability to pay. Upon this fundamental belief, Nationwide Children's is committed to providing the highest quality:. Mission, Vision & Values Photo of a baby smiling at the camera while sitting in a hospital bed. Our Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Patient care (see schedule o)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $112.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 61%; rating input score 61; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 61 of 100 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.4B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 99 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $250.4M reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 144 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 115 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: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.