Northwell Health
Legal name: Northwell Health Laboratories
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113412370
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Westbury, NY, USA
- Phone
- (888) 321-DOCS
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $872,206,422
- Expenses
- $852,180,117
- Assets
- $213,023,483
- Liabilities
- $141,983,599
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DWAYNE BREINING (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK SOLAZZO (Chairman): $3,816,311 total reported compensation
- MICHELE CUSACK (Treasurer): $1,990,193 total reported compensation
- DAVID BATTINELLI (Trustee/EVP Northwell): $1,895,203 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northwell Health works to improve the health of the communities it serves, providing high-quality clinical care, educating current and future health care professionals, advancing biomedical research, promoting health education, and caring for the entire community regardless of ability to pay. Our donors help make our mission a reality. We are grateful for their support and partnership — together, we’re creating a healthier tomorrow. Learn more (888) 321-DOCS 321-DOCS"). Whether clinical or nonclinical, every team member helps advance the health of our community with their commitment, compassion and skills. It is part of our mission to ensure they can thrive. Learn more Two men dressed in tuxedos stand in an ornate entryway with a chandelier and smile at the camera.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization functions as a central medical laboratory for northwell health and affiliated tax-exempt hospitals and related entities. The organization reduces total expenses, by gaining economies of scale through the consolidation of the health care system's clinical laboratory services. Enhanced patient care & cost reductions result from a central lab.
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 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: 2.3%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $753.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.8M · 16 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $46.3M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 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: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 226 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.