Nemours Children's Health

Overview

Mission

Nemours is a pediatric health system of hospitals and specialty clinics serving children and families throughout the Delaware Valley and Florida. Our dedicated professionals integrate medical care, research, health education, and prevention to help improve the lives of children every day. 2002:** Nemours Board of Directors expanded the Foundation’s mission, adding “leadership” as an avowed part of its purpose and deleting the limiting words “acute” and “chronic.” 2002:** To support the expanded mission, a new operating division, Nemours Health & Prevention Services, is chartered to articulate and promote holistic health and preventive care for children, beginning in Delaware. 2005:** Nemours celebrated the fifth anniversary of deploying a fully integrated electronic medical record, integrating an unprecedented 20 specialties across our children’s health system.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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: 75
• Transparency & Controls: 75
• Accountability: 100
• Sustainability: 66
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
• Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7B in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $3.1M · 51 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $84.5M reported
• Consistency: 50 of 51 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 125 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 93 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.