Sutter Health
Legal name: Sutter West Bay Medical Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942948131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 800-4SUTTER
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,085,311
- Expenses
- $190,310,590
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF GERARD (PRESIDENT SH BAY AREA)
- SARAH KREVANS (PRES/CEO, SH, ASST SECRETARY)
- TONI BRAYER (CEO SWBMF)
- PATRICK FRY (PRES & CEO SUTTER HEALTH)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH KREVANS (PRES/CEO, SH, ASST SECRETARY): $4,186,526 total reported compensation
- JEFF GERARD (PRESIDENT SH BAY AREA): $1,446,667 total reported compensation
- PATRICK FRY (PRES & CEO SUTTER HEALTH): $941,968 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 the filed numbers largely add up. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; 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: 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: 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: 87%; rating input score 87; 39th 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: -6.3%; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 1.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4.2M · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 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
- Related organizations: 47 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: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.