Sinai Chicago
Legal name: Sinai Health System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363166895
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- 773-542-2000
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,479,570
- Expenses
- $114,267,732
- Assets
- $229,669,774
- Liabilities
- $73,633,644
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
40 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NGOZI EZIKE MD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- DEBRA WESLEY (PRESIDENT - SCI)
- HELEN MARGELLOS ANAST (PRESIDENT, SINAI URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE)
- CHRISTOPHER G PAGLUICO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FINANCE)
- DENISSE LEON (VICE PRESIDENT BUS DEV & PROV)
- MICHAEL MCCONNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RISK MANAGEMENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NGOZI EZIKE MD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $863,356 total reported compensation
- ILIANA ANDREA MORA (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $599,594 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH CONNOLLY (GENERAL COUNSEL): $443,061 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering Chicago's toward healthier lives by overcoming barriers and providing exceptional health care.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sinai health system is the parent organization and provides administrative management support to its affiliated organizations to enable them to improve the health and communities it serves. Located on the west side of the city of chicago and serving a population base of 1.5 million people in its service area zip codes, sinai health system (sinai) consists of six member organizations. They are mount sinai hospital, holy cross hospital, schwab rehabilitation hospital, sinai community institute, sinai medical group, and sinai urban health institute. Sinai also has a number of clinics that are located on the west and south sides of chicago. Sinai health system serves primarily african-american and latino patients. Sinai's programs and community outreach are based on scientific epidemiological assessments of local neighborhoods done by sinai urban health institute (suhi). In addition to the work of epidemiologists, suhi community health educators work with neighborhood groups and go door to door for further identification of individuals with chronic disease and for intervention in disease processes. Suhi also conducts health disparities research, develops innovative community health interventions, delivers community health worker training and consultation, and provides a broad scope of evaluation services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 49th 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: -1.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $863K · 40 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $870K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.