Adventist Health System-West

Analysis

Adventist Health System-West is a registered charity in United States, based in Roseville, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1947, 79 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Adventist Health System-West reported income of $924.5m and spending of $936.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $374.9m to $924.5m (+147%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Adventist Health System-West sits at the 99th 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 Cook Childrens Health Plan ($921.2m), American Heart Association Inc ($925.8m) and Bryan Medical Center ($917.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 65% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $31.6m (3.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $242.8m. At year end it held assets of $3.56bn against liabilities of $3.29bn, net assets of $264.3m. It reported 5,191 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.