Tanner Health Foundation

Legal name: Tanner Medical Center Group Return

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800785570
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Carrollton, GA, USA
Phone
770-812-9721
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$540,394,514
Expenses
$502,353,910
Assets
$797,687,192
Liabilities
$469,458,097

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

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LOY HOWARD (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LOY HOWARD (CEO): $2,925,291 total reported compensation
  • SHAZIB KHAWAJA MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,971,797 total reported compensation
  • CHRIS ARANT MD (DIRECTOR/PHY): $1,543,767 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Tanner Health is dedicated to delivering healthcare that surpasses your expectations for quality and convenience. Our mission: To provide a comprehensive range of quality healthcare services within our resource capabilities, and to lead a collaborative effort with the community to offer health education, support services and care for all citizens. Our mission drives us: To provide a comprehensive range of quality healthcare services within our resource capabilities. To lead a collaborative effort with the community to offer health education, support services and care for all citizens. Tanner Health is a nonprofit healthcare provider whose mission is to improve community health. Community health refers to the physical, mental and social well-being of people within a...

What it reported doing in 2024

Tanner medical center, inc. Group physicians offer a wide range of medical specialties, including interventional and non-interventional cardiology, family medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious diseases, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonary and critical care medicine, surgical breast care and vascular surgery. Tanner hospice care provides hospice care services to communities throughout west Georgia regardless of ability to pay. Tanner home health provides home health care to communities throughout west Georgia regardless of ability to pay.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% 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. 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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 31st 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: 7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $488.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.9M · 27 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $19.4M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.