UC Health
Legal name: Uc Healthcare System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273850988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 513-585-8222
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,926,481,065
- Expenses
- $2,923,524,001
- Assets
- $1,927,739,350
- Liabilities
- $1,265,826,467
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CORY SHAW (CEO & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RANI NASSER MD (PHYSICIAN): $2,279,521 total reported compensation
- CORY SHAW (CEO & PRESIDENT): $2,068,092 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH CHENG MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,849,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
UC Health is care centered around connecting research, clinical trials, care teams, and ongoing wellness—all to create a path to new possibilities. To support this goal, we are continuing our commitment to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO). This means standardizing how we work, anticipating risks before they become issues and consistently applying proven safety practices across every role and every site. We believe that **safety starts with us**. Each of us plays a critical role in create a safe, reliable environment—for our patients, our colleagues and our community. About UC Health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Patient services and physician services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 28th 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: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $2.7B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.3M · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $94M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 29 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.