Saint Joseph's Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581744848
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6788438600
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,202,014
- Expenses
- $10,898,197
- Assets
- $499,956,114
- Liabilities
- $402,535
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHRYN LAWLER (DIRECTOR; PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DINA RICHARD (DIRECTOR; TRINITY SVP TREASURY): $1,013,433 total reported compensation
- KATHRYN LAWLER (DIRECTOR; PRESIDENT & CEO): $483,707 total reported compensation
- ERICA STOKES (TREASURER; SJMCS CFO): $296,656 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, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. Honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of mercy, saint joseph's health system provides excellent health care to poor and marginalized persons. Saint joseph's health system is a member of trinity health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organized in 1985, saint joseph's health system is located in atlanta, ga. Saint joseph's health system provides oversight and support for its five not-for-profit entities, serving a number of diverse communities throughout north Georgia. The system helps its constituent entities provide state-of-the-art health care services to the community, including the poor and the elderly who are traditionally underserved. Support services provided by saint joseph's health system include long-range strategic planning, financial, and legal services.please visit our website for additional information: www.mercyatlanta.org
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th 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: 2.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 45.88; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 312 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.