Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative

Analysis

Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is a registered charity in United States, based in Brookfield, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. 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, Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative reported income of $459.4m and spending of $450.4m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $518.7m to $459.4m (-11%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative 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 WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Homestead Hospital Inc ($458.5m), Main Line Healthcare ($459.6m) and Shaare Zedek Medical Center ($458.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $2.7m (0.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $9.5m. At year end it held assets of $262.1m against liabilities of $182.2m, net assets of $80.0m. It reported 179 employees.