Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital
Legal name: The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430666765
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Maryland Heights, MO, US
- Phone
- (314) 684-1855
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,536,783
- Expenses
- $61,312,908
- Assets
- $211,828,751
- Liabilities
- $38,939,984
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shawn D Dryden (President / Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Nicholas A Holekamp MD (Chief Medical Officer): $545,473 total reported compensation
- Shawn D Dryden (President / Chief Executive Officer): $521,944 total reported compensation
- Lynda Brady MD (Manager Physician): $375,286 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 inspire life-changing solutions for children with complex medical needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the current Fiscal Year, Ranken Jordan Provided 15,890 days of medical care for inpatients. 57% of inpatients were discharged to home to continued care by their families and have not needed admission to another care facility after the days of care provided. 86% of inpatients were eligible to receive some form of Medicaid assistance. No inpatient ever leaves Ranken Jordan with a patient responsibility due unless we are contractually obligated to collect coinsurance or deductibles for coverage under a commercial policy. The staff prepares families to go home with the appropriate devices and equipment as well as the skill necessary to care for their child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 98
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th 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: 17.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.45; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $51.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $545K · 34 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
- Consistency: 45 of 46 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.