RWJBarnabas Health
Legal name: The Rwj University Hospital Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222378007
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Orange, NJ, US
- Phone
- (888) 724-7123
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,217,676
- Expenses
- $18,556,000
- Assets
- $32,562,267
- Liabilities
- $2,238,267
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM S ARNOLD (TRUSTEE - CEO RWJUHNB)
- ALAN LEE (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT RWJUHNB)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM S ARNOLD (TRUSTEE - CEO RWJUHNB): $3,409,051 total reported compensation
- ALAN LEE (TRUSTEE - PRESIDENT RWJUHNB): $1,643,938 total reported compensation
- JENNY MUNDELL (TRUSTEE - VP DEVELOPMENT): $319,133 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 and well-being of the communities we serve through compassionate, comprehensive care and philanthropic support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Expenses incurred in support the charitable tax-exempt purposes, programs and services of robert wood johnson university hospital; a related internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, which provides medically necessary healthcare services to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 17th 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: 31.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th 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: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.4M · 20 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 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: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 112 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.