CHI Health

Legal name: St Mary's Community Hospital

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470443636
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
4028733321
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,045,115
Expenses
$41,946,907
Assets
$78,656,555
Liabilities
$7,589,775

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/PRESIDENT & CEO CHI HEALTH)
  • DAVID JONES (MARKET PRESIDENT, REGIONAL HOSPITALS)
  • DANIEL DEFREECE MD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN PETERSDORF (EX-OFFICIO BM/SYS SVP, OPERATIONAL FINANCE): $5,864,923 total reported compensation
  • TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/PRESIDENT & CEO CHI HEALTH): $2,889,751 total reported compensation
  • JEFFREY STEARNES MD (FORMER HCE/PHYSICIAN): $1,020,689 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

What it reported doing in 2024

St. Mary's community hospital has strived to improve the health status of children, teens, adults, senior citizens, friends and neighbors in this rural community. St. Mary's community hospital is proud to offer healthcare services close to home within the community. St. Mary's community hospital provides a variety of diagnostic services to the community, such as ct scans, mri and nuclear medicine in addition to general radiology, mammography, surgical radiography and ultrasound.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 68.8%; rating input score 69; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 64.3%; rating input score 64; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $35.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.9M · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $288K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 329 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.