St Bernard Hospital

Analysis

St Bernard Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. 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 hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, St Bernard Hospital reported income of $122.7m and spending of $130.9m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $100.8m to $122.7m (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, St Bernard Hospital sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crisp Regional Hospital Inc ($122.5m), Tricore Laboratory Services Corporation ($122.9m) and Wellspan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital ($122.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 22% and program service revenue 74% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.7m (1.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $45.6m. At year end it held assets of $65.7m against liabilities of $43.6m, net assets of $22.1m. It reported 879 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.