Porter Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030181058
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Middlebury, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8023884701
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,203,216
- Expenses
- $129,001,086
- Assets
- $110,747,379
- Liabilities
- $23,314,607
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR JASON SANDERS (PRES/CEO OF UVMHN MG (TIL 3/2025))
- DR RAMSEY HERRINGTON (MG PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 7/2025))
Highest reported compensation
- DR RAMSEY HERRINGTON (MG PRESIDENT & CEO (AS OF 7/2025)): $777,218 total reported compensation
- DR JASON SANDERS (PRES/CEO OF UVMHN MG (TIL 3/2025)): $751,166 total reported compensation
- BOB ORTMYER (PRES, ECH & PMC): $624,117 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation of a critical access hospital, in line with our mission to improve the health of our community, one person at a time.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o for full disclosureporter hospital, inc. ("porter") operates a not-for profit critical access hospital with patient care services including emergency room, maternity and medical/surgical inpatient and outpatient care, and ancillary services including rehabilitation, laboratory testing, and diagnostic imaging services. As a critical access hospital, porter staffs a total of 25 beds including the birthing unit. In addition, porter has an emergency room to serve the greater addison county community needs. Porter recorded approximately 8,251 inpatient days during the year. Emergency room visits totaled 14,506 for the year. Surgeries for the year totaled 3,945. Support services for both inpatients and outpatients include but are not limited to laboratory, diagnostic imaging services, cardiac services, and rehabilitation facilities. Imaging includes radiology, nuclear medicine, mri, ultrasound, and ct scan. Porter provides free care to patients who meet certain criteria. Porter provides a number of community health outreach programs to the general public for free. The programs include but are not limited to diabetes education, breast cancer screening, prenatal classes, breastfeeding classes, and cpr courses. Porter provides clinical office space to the open door clinic, which provides access to free quality healthcare services to those who are uninsured or underinsured until a permanent health care provider can be established. Finally, porter has partnered with local career centers, as well as colleges to provided clinical exposure to their students with goals of developing future healthcare workers for the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th 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: 6.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $777K · 27 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $15M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.