Bronson Battle Creek Hospital

Analysis

Bronson Battle Creek Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in Kalamazoo, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1992, 34 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, Bronson Battle Creek Hospital reported income of $340.2m and spending of $345.7m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $334.0m to $340.2m (+1.9%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bronson Battle Creek Hospital sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Van Andel Research Institute ($340.0m), Lawrence General Hospital ($340.8m) and Legacy Community Health Services Inc ($339.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.5% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $158.7m. At year end it held assets of $148.4m against liabilities of $30.8m, net assets of $117.6m. It reported 1,780 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.