Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital

Analysis

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in Allentown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2000, 26 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, Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital reported income of $11.0m and spending of $17.7m, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $16.4m to $11.0m (-33%), an average of -9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sound Community Services Inc ($11.0m), KVC Behavioral Healthcare West Virginia Inc ($11.0m) and Kinston Community Health Center Inc ($11.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5.6m. At year end it held assets of $5.7m against liabilities of $584k, net assets of $5.2m. It reported 115 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.