Samaritan Health Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930951989
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Corvallis, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5417684857
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $327,760,439
- Expenses
- $380,156,629
- Assets
- $272,371,758
- Liabilities
- $301,889,070
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
40 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUGLAS BOYSEN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- LAURA HENNUM (VP CEO GSRMC (END AUG))
- WENDIE WUNDERWALD (VP CEO MVH (END SEPT))
- BRUCE BUTLER (VP CEO HEALTH PLANS)
- LESLEY OGDEN MD (VP CEO NLH / CEO SPCH)
- DANIEL KETERI (VP CEO SAGH)
Highest reported compensation
- DOUGLAS BOYSEN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,407,871 total reported compensation
- LAURA HENNUM (VP CEO GSRMC (END AUG)): $848,092 total reported compensation
- ROBERT TURNGREN MD (SVP / CHIEF PHYSICIAN EXEC): $713,437 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Building healthier communities together. Our mission is to**improve access,** **build community,****inspire hope** and **leave a legacy** for individual and community health across Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties. Become a contributor to the Stronger Together campaign today! Select the community where you would like to support this program. Albany. We know that you have choices when it comes to your health care needs, and we’re thankful you’ve chosen us to care for you and your family. As you recover from your illness or injury, we know that questions or concerns about medical expenses can add to what can already be a stressful time. We want to answer questions you may have about your health care bill and also make you aware of resources that are available to help. As part of our mission of “building healthier communities together,” we are committed to providing quality health care...
What it reported doing in 2024
As the parent organization, shs provides administrative and other support services to its affiliated organizations, such as patient billing, information services, accounting, and employee recruitment. Shs sponsors a health plan that provides medical, dental, and pharmacy benefits to employees of shs and its affiliates. As a system, shs looks carefully at local health care needs and gives thoughtful consideration to the most effective ways to meet those needs. The result is a rich mix of local and centralized regional services, which provide high value and excellent health care for people at all stages of their lives.samaritan health services (shs) has policies that provide for serving those without the ability to pay for treatment. The policies establish criteria based on the income of the person responsible for the bill and collections are at amounts less than its established rates on a sliding scale down to no payment at all. In 2024 shs provided services that benefited the poor and others in the communities it served. In addition to the grants shown on line 4b, shs incurred $2,634,751 of community benefit costs, including community health improvement services, health profession education, and community building activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 77.6%; rating input score 78; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -16%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.11; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $325.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 40 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $54.2M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 32 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.