St. Joseph's/Candler
Legal name: Saint Joseph's Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 580568702
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Savannah, GA, USA
- Phone
- (912) 819-8683
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $378,594,026
- Expenses
- $369,686,138
- Assets
- $195,203,164
- Liabilities
- $32,130,415
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL P HINCHEY (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL P HINCHEY (PRESIDENT &): $1,820,049 total reported compensation
- BRIAN M BAILEY MD (SURGEON): $1,191,960 total reported compensation
- JEREMY E LONDON MD (SURGEON): $1,014,389 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rooted in God's love, we treat illness and promote wellness for all people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Saint joseph's hospital, inc. Is an acute care hospital located in savannah, Georgia. In furtherance of its tax-exempt purpose, saint joseph's hospital, inc.: 1) maintains and operates permanent facilities that provide both inpatient and outpatient services for providing diagnoses and treatment of patients suffering from illness or injury; 2) promotes and provides health education programs, support groups, and various community services for all people of savannah and the surrounding counties; 3) encourages and participates in health sciences research for treatment of illness and promotion of health; 4) preserves and incorporates the catholic christian philosophy of the hospital in all its activities and contracts. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the hospital served the following: 63,394 acute care patient days and 11,032 discharges; 5,259 rehab days with 331 discharges; and home health agency visits totaled 57,916. Emergency room visits totaled 47,049. The hospital also provided services for 134,023 outpatient visits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- 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: 20%; rating input score 20; 9th 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: 2.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $309.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 20 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $19.5M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 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 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.