Sutter Health

Analysis

Sutter Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1982, 44 years ago. 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, Sutter Health reported income of $1.88bn and spending of $2.07bn, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.92bn to $1.88bn (-2.2%), an average of -0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sutter Health sits at the 100th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ohiohealth Corporation ($1.88bn), Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island ($1.88bn) and Geisinger Medical Center ($1.88bn).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.7% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $32.8m (1.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $597.0m. At year end it held assets of $8.62bn against liabilities of $4.27bn, net assets of $4.35bn. It reported 6,747 employees.