Baton Rouge General Medical Center

Analysis

Baton Rouge General Medical Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1984, 42 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 September 2023, Baton Rouge General Medical Center reported income of $663.4m and spending of $628.5m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $412.8m to $663.4m (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Baton Rouge General Medical Center sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lowell General Hospital ($657.1m), Southern Illinois Hospital Services ($664.8m) and American Cancer Society Inc ($656.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.8% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $159.5m. At year end it held assets of $483.4m against liabilities of $150.9m, net assets of $332.6m.