Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center
Legal name: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810851756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Roswell, GA, US
- Phone
- (770) 751-2500
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $415,130,587
- Expenses
- $378,192,737
- Assets
- $479,124,696
- Liabilities
- $326,224,705
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
87 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JON-PAUL CROOM (SVP & HOSPITAL PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $5,069,923 total reported compensation
- LEO REICHERT (EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,619,966 total reported compensation
- RICHARD CAPPS (EVP CHIEF INFO & DIGITAL OFFCR): $1,579,418 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 16th 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: 8.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $314.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.1M · 87 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.