Bryan Health

Analysis

Bryan Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Lincoln, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bryan Health reported income of $6.8m and spending of $53.8m, spending 786% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.5m to $6.8m (+25%), an average of +5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 695% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bryan Health sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Owsley County Health Care Center Inc ($6.8m), Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation ($6.8m) and Community Memorial Hospital Inc ($6.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.6% and program service revenue 67% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $7.8m (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $15.0m. At year end it held assets of $148.3m against liabilities of $17.9m, net assets of $130.3m. It reported 201 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.