Renown Health Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942972749
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Reno, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7759826488
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,542,770
- Expenses
- $20,634,540
- Assets
- $60,413,732
- Liabilities
- $1,202,985
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Erling (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Erling (President/CEO): $2,097,846 total reported compensation
- Max Coppes (Director): $525,243 total reported compensation
- Anna Loomis - Chief (Financial Officer (as of 07/24)): $453,165 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
See Schedule ORenown Health is Reno's only not-for-profit hospital. Community support and partnership are essential to the services we provide and donor contributions of any size make a significant impact on our community. Renown Health Foundation, founded in 1985, carries forward an essential tradition - pairing donor support with our community's most vital needs. Support for Renown Health Foundation stays here to fund and support patients through enhanced prevention and education programs, state-of-the-art equipment, and important medical research. Renown Health Foundation is working hard to ensure families have access to care, now and into the future. Here are a few recent projects and programs that show the impact of donations: *Conrad Breast Center*Pennington Transplant Fund*Helmsley ECMO Grant*Renown Children's Hospital*Crisis Center*Clinical training and educationRenown Health is focused on being the destination for our community's health and healthcare needs. Renown Health Foundation raises funds for all our major service lines, including cancer, heart and vascular health, rehabilitation, pediatric services and behavioral health and addiction. For the year ended December 31, 2024, Renown Health Foundation, along with its parent, Renown Health and its subsidiaries, provided approximately $196 million in benefit to the community (using community benefit numbers gathered by the Nevada Hospital Association using state-approved criteria to ensure consistency). For a full report on the benefit Renown Health provided to our community, as well as our community needs assessment and community benefit plan, go to: https://www.renown.org/about/community-commitment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 26 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 29 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.