Sutter Health
Legal name: Sutter East Bay Hospitals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941196176
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 800-4SUTTER
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,030,570
- Expenses
- $230,915,857
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH KREVANS (PRES & CEO SH, ASST SEC SEBH)
- JULIE PETRINI (CEO, BAY AREA HOSPITALS)
- CHARLES J PROSPER (CEO, ABSMC)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH KREVANS (PRES & CEO SH, ASST SEC SEBH): $1,078,768 total reported compensation
- JEFF GERARD (SVP STRATEGIC SERVICES & CSO): $359,286 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN H LOCKHART MD (SH SVP/CMO): $273,336 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We enhance the well-being of people in the communities we serve through a not-for-profit commitment to compassion and excellence in healthcare services.
What it reported doing in 2017
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $205.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 30 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.2M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 49 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.
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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.