The University of Chicago Medicine

Legal name: University of Chicago Medical Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363488183
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
1-888-824-0200
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,573,895,376
Expenses
$3,399,180,621
Assets
$5,272,904,338
Liabilities
$2,449,094,212

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

90 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • THOMAS JACKIEWICZ (PRESIDENT UCHS)
  • LESLIE LES R STERN (PRESIDENT, CARE NETWORK (THRU 3/31/24))

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK ANDERSON (TRUSTEE EX OFFICIO/EVP MED AFFAIRS,DEAN, BSD & PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE): $3,295,016 total reported compensation
  • THOMAS JACKIEWICZ (PRESIDENT UCHS): $3,169,675 total reported compensation
  • JASON KEELER (FORMER EVP & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (THRU 2/1/24)): $2,498,357 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 be at the forefront every day—providing care, advancing research and education, and serving community health needs. Promoting Health and Vitality in Our Communities Contact Our Team UChicago Medicine is an anchor on the South Side and in the Southland. Our Hyde Park medical campus is surrounded by neighborhoods experiencing unprecedented levels of growth and redevelopment — Woodlawn, North Kenwood/Oakland and beyond — leading to an ever-broadening network of communities and blurring the borders that once isolated Hyde Park from its neighbors. The results are a progressively richer culture and a shared appreciation for life on the South Side. Furthermore, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial extends our mission throughout our Southland service area by offering programs and services designed to educate the co.

What it reported doing in 2024

The pharmacy provides services to both our inpatients and outpatients, including employees and students of ucmc and the university of chicago. The outpatient pharmacy is located in the duchossois center for advanced medicine (dcam) and ucmc pharmacy services is located in calumet city, il. Both locations can be reached 24/7 via telephone. The pharmacy also provides adult infusion services at our six infusion center locations (hyde park, orland park, river east, silver cross, northbrook, and crown point). The inpatient pharmacy is open 24/7 and dispenses approximately 453,000 medications per month and makes approximately 13,000 interventions per month. The outpatient pharmacy processes approximately 43,000 medication orders per month. Meds2beds makes approximately 900 interventions per month. Ambulatory pharmacy makes approximately 1,500 interventions per month. The specialty pharmacy made approximately 5,700 interventions during the fiscal year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5,915.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th 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: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th 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: 4.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 50 of 55 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.1B in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3.3M · 90 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $742.9M reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 13 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: 77 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 109 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.