Shannon
Legal name: Shannon Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752559845
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Angelo, TX, United States
- Phone
- 325.747.6741
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $821,210,240
- Expenses
- $695,237,379
- Assets
- $593,519,484
- Liabilities
- $121,444,293
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLY SHANE PLYMELL (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- DR MICHAEL WOOD (VICE PRESIDENT/CMO)
- JOSEPH WOOLDRIDGE (VICE PRESIDENT/CFO)
- PAMELA J BRADSHAW (VICE PRESIDENT/COO)
- DR JAMES C BARNETT (VICE PRESIDENT/CMO)
- REBECCA FUENTES (VICE PRESIDENT/CNO)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLY SHANE PLYMELL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,315,331 total reported compensation
- ROSS HARPER (DIRECTOR): $1,230,356 total reported compensation
- JASON FELGER (DIRECTOR): $1,044,110 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Over 90 Years Of Healthcare Excellence. Our mission is to provide our patients with the most compassionate and efficient service while ensuring the highest quality care. We have been caring for west Texans for more than 90 years and are proud to be the largest locally based healthcare provider for the Concho Valley and the surrounding region. For more than 90 years, Shannon has served this area, growing with the community and serving its healthcare needs. Our facility is licensed for 600+ beds and provides a variety of clinical services to meet each patient's needs. Together with Shannon Clinic, Shannon provides access to more than 400 providers in 40 medical specialties across 25 locations. Shannon’s services include nationally r.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing total medical care to the citizens of west Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $513.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 26 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.6M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.