St. Clair Health
Legal name: St Clair Health Corporation Group Return
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611663540
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 412.942.4000
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $486,649,622
- Expenses
- $462,742,278
- Assets
- $830,888,364
- Liabilities
- $254,284,129
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
83 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael J Flanagan (President/CEO-SCH)
- Michael J Flanagan (President/CEO-SCMS)
- Michael J Flanagan (President/CEO-SCF)
Highest reported compensation
- Andy C Kiser MD (Board Member-SCMS): $1,663,023 total reported compensation
- Michael J Flanagan (President/CEO-SCH): $1,185,782 total reported compensation
- Kevin Bordeau MD (Board Member-SCMS): $1,130,328 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Deliver personalized care to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve. Our Vision. Now an award-winning, state-of-the-art health care facility, St. Clair Health continues to focus on the needs of the community and patients. That is what drives the Board of Directors, physicians, employees and volunteers to provide exceptional performance and quality care. For more on the history of St. Clair Health, watch the short video below or click here to view a special issue of HouseCall magazine. Today’s St. Clair Hospital.
What it reported doing in 2024
St Clair Memorial Hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide healthcare services to the community and operate a 24 hour Emergency Department to meet the medical needs of the community regardless of ability to pay. In the current year, the Hospital provided 62,507 inpatient days of care to the adult and pediatric population of the community, served 12,844 admissions, performed 235,561 occasions of outpatient services and treated 55,250 Emergency room visits.St Clair Memorial Hospital Foundation provides administrative and support functions associated with program services. St. Clair Medical Services, Inc. provides physician and other healthcare services to the community to support, provide assistance, and (Cont. on Schedule O) advance the interests of St. Clair Health Corporation. St. Clair Professional Services, Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of St. Clair Medical Services, Inc., provides physician and other healthcare services to the community, regardless of ability to pay, including, but not limited to, pediatric and certain hospitalists and intensivists services to support, assist, and advance the interests of St. Clair Memorial Hospital(exempt) and other corporations or organizations that are affiliated with St. Clair Health Corporation which are exempt from federal income tax under Sections 501(c)(3) and public charities exempt under 509(a)(1) or (2) of the Code. St. Clair Anesthesiology Associates, Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of St. Clair Medical Services, Inc. employs Certified Nurse Anesthetists who provide healthcare services to the community, regardless of ability to pay, including, but not limited to, anesthesia services to support, assist, and advance the interests of St. Clair Memorial Hospital(exempt) and other corporations or organizations that are affiliates with St. Clair Health Corporation which are exempt from federal income tax under Sections 501(c)(3) and public charities exempt under 509(a)(1) or (2) of the Code.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 57.3%; rating input score 57; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th 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: 4.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 60 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $367.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 83 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $58.4M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.