Guthrie
Legal name: The Guthrie Clinic
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 233055017
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Sayre, PA, US
- Phone
- (570) 888-5858
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $307,762,669
- Expenses
- $314,427,668
- Assets
- $3,703,158,837
- Liabilities
- $3,789,910,921
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDMUND SABANEGH MD (DIRECTOR - PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JOSEPH RONSIVALLE MD (DIR - PRESIDENT GMG)
Highest reported compensation
- EDMUND SABANEGH MD (DIRECTOR - PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,895,232 total reported compensation
- ROBERT KRUKLITIS MD PHD MBA (EVP, CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $1,039,313 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW HUFF CPA (EVP/CFO): $998,326 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the health of the communities we serve through a comprehensive, integrated system of high-quality, compassionate care.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Guthrie Clinic operates as the parent entity of a tax-exempt multi-entity healthcare system. The organization coordinates, supervises and ensures the continuation and improvement of the quality of healthcare services in a cost effective manner provided by its qualifying affiliates to the community in furtherance of its charitable tax-exempt purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 83% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th 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: -2.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.78; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 42.5% of revenue deployed · 42.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 29 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $59.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 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: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.