NorthBay Health
Legal name: Northbay Healthcare Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941458282
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fairfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- (707) 646-3138
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $850,099,076
- Expenses
- $824,590,869
- Assets
- $889,465,771
- Liabilities
- $438,574,415
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK BEHL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- B KONARD JONES (FORMER PRES & CEO (THRU 12/2023))
Highest reported compensation
- B KONARD JONES (FORMER PRES & CEO (THRU 12/2023)): $1,244,054 total reported compensation
- MARK BEHL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,240,326 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH D'ANGINA (EVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $1,009,593 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Improving the well-being of our communities by providing conveniently accessible, high-quality care. Our mission is to improve the well-being of our communities by providing conveniently accessible high-quality care. Our Vision To be the trusted healthcare partner of choice for the communities we serve. NorthBay Health: Good Stewardship of the 340B Program About us NorthBay Health opened its first hospital in 1959 and remains Solano County's only locally based, locally managed nonprofit healthcare organization. NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield and NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville are known for providing quality services. The 154-bed NorthBay Medical Center is a regional center for pregnancy and childbirth, and is proudly designated as a Baby Friendly facility. Our Newborn Intensive Care Unit provides the most sophisticated services for premature or ill newborns within 50...
What it reported doing in 2024
Northbay healthcare group operates two non-profit hospitals within solano county: northbay medical center and vacavalley hospital. Northbay medical center, a 154-bed acute-care hospital, is committed to meeting the changing health needs of local residents, making state-of-the-art services available close to home. These services include: a 24-hour emergency department and stemi receiving center, a level ii trauma center, an accredited chest pain center with pci, a primary stroke center, a modern maternity unit with private birthing suites, a newborn intensive care unit for premature and critically ill newborns, state-of-the-art critical care units, comprehensive diagnostic imaging services, surgical services, a cardiac catheterization lab, the northbay heart & vascular center, and a cancer center accredited by the american college of surgeons.vacavalley hospital is a 50-bed, non-profit hospital providing a wide range of medical services to the residents of vacaville and surrounding communities of northern solano county. Vacavalley hospital provides a 24-hour emergency department, 44 medical-surgical beds, a six-bed critical care unit for high-level intensive care, two surgery suites, a full-service laboratory, and diagnostic imaging services with a fully equipped radiology department including ct scanner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% 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.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.6%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 76
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th 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: 3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.6% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $622.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $22.9M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 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: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.