Mercy Hospital Joplin

Analysis

Mercy Hospital Joplin is a registered charity in United States, based in Joplin, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1946, 80 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Mercy Hospital Joplin reported income of $286.7m and spending of $269.3m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $277.3m to $286.7m (+3.4%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Hospital Joplin sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Good Samaritan Hospital of Lebanon Pennsylvania ($286.1m), Kings Physician Services PC ($286.9m) and Childrens Medical Center ($285.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $98.8m. At year end it held assets of $172.5m against liabilities of $19.2m, net assets of $153.3m.