Stanford Health Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946174066
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Stanford, CA, USA
- Phone
- 650-723-5462
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,679,438,173
- Expenses
- $7,994,792,316
- Assets
- $13,566,623,450
- Liabilities
- $5,095,460,235
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID ENTWISTLE (PRESIDENT & CEO (SEE SCH O))
- SRIDHAR SESHADRI (SVP & PRESIDENT-CANCER CENTER)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID ENTWISTLE (PRESIDENT & CEO (SEE SCH O)): $5,385,633 total reported compensation
- LLOYD B MINOR MD (DIRECTOR (SEE SCHEDULE O)): $3,727,284 total reported compensation
- QUINN MCKENNA (EVP-CHIEF OP. OFFICER (SCH O)): $2,589,728 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Healing humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time. Stanford Health Care's _Code of Conduct_ is the keystone of its corporate integrity philosophy and communicates its ethical business standards. The _Code of Conduct_ serves as a cultural compass for staff, management, vendors, volunteers and others who interact with the hospitals. It is an essential element of our Compliance Integrity Program. The Compliance Department was created to oversee our Compliance Integrity Program and to demonstrate our commitment to conducting our business with integrity. The Compliance Integrity Program is a partnership among all of us to make the right business choices. The _Code of Conduct_ is a vital part of how we achieve our mission and vision. It provides g.
What it reported doing in 2024
Stanford health care ("shc") is known worldwide for advanced patient care provided by its physicians and staff, particularly in areas such as cardiac care, cancer treatment, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, surgery and organ transplants. Shc had 37,555 patient discharges. Shc had 272,995 patient days including acute, behaviorial health, and short stay outpatient. Total outpatient and emergency room visits were 1,286,091 for the fiscal year ended august 31, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 55th 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%; rating input score 64; 18th 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: 7.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.6B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.4M · 44 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6B reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 50 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 95 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.