Gettysburg Hospital

Analysis

Gettysburg Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in York, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1949, 77 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Gettysburg Hospital reported income of $357.4m and spending of $289.7m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $242.7m to $357.4m (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gettysburg Hospital sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc ($356.6m), Foundation Health LLC ($357.5m) and Physicians of University Hospital PC ($356.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.7% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.1m (0.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $57.6m. At year end it held assets of $507.2m against liabilities of $57.2m, net assets of $450.0m. It reported 1,121 employees.