Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Analysis

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1953, 73 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations reported income of $207.5m and spending of $189.3m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $193.0m to $207.5m (+7.5%), an average of +1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 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 100th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include El Paso Childrens Hospital Corporation ($207.4m), Tarrant Safety Net Support Corporation ($207.8m) and Covenant Health ($207.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $11.0m (5.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $92.7m. At year end it held assets of $379.6m against liabilities of $29.4m, net assets of $350.1m. It reported 1,217 employees.