SBH Health System
Legal name: St Barnabas Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131740122
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7189609000
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $603,257,963
- Expenses
- $585,180,710
- Assets
- $648,282,941
- Liabilities
- $410,702,620
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Perlstein (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- David Perlstein (PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,067,682 total reported compensation
- Sulejman Celaj (DIR. CARDIOLOGY): $986,575 total reported compensation
- Ridwan Shabsigh (CHAIRMAN SURGERY): $887,064 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 are the Bronx SBH Health System is committed to improving the health, wellness and well-being of our community. SBH Health System is committed to providing financial assistance to patients who are uninsured, underinsured, ineligible for a government program, or otherwise unable to pay. Consistent with our mission to deliver compassionate, high quality, affordable healthcare services and to advocate for those who are poor and disenfranchised, we strive to ensure that the financial capacity of people who need health care services does not prevent them from seeking or receiving care. Financial Assistance is not a substitute for personal responsibility. Patients are expected to cooperate with our procedures for obtaining charity or other forms of payment or financial assistance, and to contribute to the c.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024, the hospital provided 431,190 outpatient healthcare services. These services included 131,040 ambulatory care visits; 5,538 urgent care visits; 63,003 emergency & pediatric emergency visits; 22,052 dialysis treatments; 6,896 ambulatory surgery treatments; 202,661 methadone maintenance clinic treatments. See Schedule O for details.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 31st 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: 3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th 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: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $473.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $37.1M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.