Northeast Georgia Health System
Legal name: Northeast Georgia Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581694090
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7702195888
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $569,326,723
- Expenses
- $515,291,172
- Assets
- $783,769,399
- Liabilities
- $105,916,868
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATT HANLEY (PRESIDENT & CEO (BEGIN 3/25), MEMBER)
- CAROL BURRELL (PRESIDENT & CEO (ENDED 5/25), MEMBER)
- DANIEL TUFFY (PRESIDENT AND CAO - NGPG)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROL BURRELL (PRESIDENT & CEO (ENDED 5/25), MEMBER): $2,489,525 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL COVERT (FORMER CHIEF OPER. OFFICER): $1,811,122 total reported compensation
- HABIB SAMADY (CLINICAL SERVICE LINE LEADER-NGMC HEART AND VASCUL): $1,326,497 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 are committed to improving the health of our community in all we do. We will be the preferred and indispensable healthcare resource for the communities we serve. Our Core Values We pride ourselves on four core values, all of which help us achieve our mission of improving the health of our community in all we do. These values shape the daily interactions between our physicians, staff, volunteers, board members, patients and their loved ones. View Our Core Values.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northeast Georgia health system is based in gainesville, Georgia, and serves more than a million people across the region. See schedule o for program service accomplishments continuation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 45.6%; rating input score 46; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 73.3%; rating input score 73; 23rd 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: 9.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 77.9% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $442.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.5M · 35 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.9M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 38 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.