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SUTTER HEALTH

SUTTER HEALTH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,916,169 to it, the largest being THOMAS P RALEY FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.7B
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$4.6B
14/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sutter Health does

Mission

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality, equitable care and take on the toughest challenges. CURIOSITY - We are constantly learning and creating new ways to advance healthcare. TEAMWORK - We collaborate with humility and solve for ONE Sutter. COMPASSION - We show empathy and understanding in every personal interaction. INCLUSION - We respect our differences and similarities, and cultivate a sense of belonging. INTEGRITY - We earn trust by doing the right thing and delivering on our commitments.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. STATEMENT OF PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Sutter Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system providing comprehensive, high-quality care throughout California. Committed to innovative, high-quality patient care and community partnerships, Sutter is pursuing a bold new plan to reach more people and make excellent healthcare more connected and accessible. Currently serving nearly 3.5 million patients, thanks to our dedicated team of more than 60,500 employees and clinicians, and 14,000 affiliated physicians, with a unified focus on expanding care to serve more patients. Sutter Health delivers exceptional and affordable care through its hospitals, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care sites, home health, and hospice services. Dedicated to transforming healthcare, at Sutter Health, getting better never stops. From deploying technology that improves the patient experience to expanding training programs to cultivate the next generation of physicans and healthcare workers, Sutter is working to shape the future of healthcare and be the best place to work, practice medicine and receive care. Sutter Health is closing healthcare gaps by expanding access. Sutter has…

    $2,417,121,304 spentof which $2,816,373 as grants$2,140,937,613 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,417,121,304.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8B) Expenses 100 ($1.6B) Net assets 100 ($4.4B)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.8B) Expenses 116 ($1.8B) Net assets 94 ($4.2B)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.9B) Expenses 158 ($2.5B) Net assets 90 ($4.0B)2020 Revenue 108 ($1.9B) Expenses 128 ($2.0B) Net assets 42 ($1.9B)2021 Revenue 137 ($2.4B) Expenses 117 ($1.8B) Net assets 88 ($3.9B)2022 Revenue 109 ($1.9B) Expenses 119 ($1.9B) Net assets 93 ($4.1B)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.9B) Expenses 133 ($2.1B) Net assets 98 ($4.3B)2024 Revenue 153 ($2.7B) Expenses 163 ($2.5B) Net assets 104 ($4.6B)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (163)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.4B to $8.6B (+16%).

$6.2B
$6.2B
$6.8B
$6.8B
$7.4B
$7.4B
$8.6B
$9.6B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SUTTER HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$200M
’17
−$8.1M
’18
−$546M
’19
−$88M
’20
$593M
’21
$60M
’22
−$188M
’23
$141M
’24
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Ken Mcneeley

Director/chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed4338363738363342
Joined·+3+4+9+6+7+4+12
No longer listed·8685973
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $474k → $2.1M.

11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sutter Bay Medical Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SUTTER HEALTH raised.

From the IRS filings of SUTTER HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SUTTER HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SUTTER HEALTH.

35%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 94% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

27% of SUTTER HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

94% of SUTTER HEALTH's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
DC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SUTTER HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding SUTTER HEALTH receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.

State$3k
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By state
  • OR$3k
  • FL$70

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SUTTER HEALTH

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 73 related entities

  • Sutter Outpatient Services LLC · disregarded
  • Sutter Shared Lab LLC · disregarded
  • Sutter Health Network LLC · disregarded
  • Sutter Pref Dir Contracting Entity LLC · disregarded
  • California Pacific Medical Ctr Found · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUTTER HEALTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUTTER HEALTH?
SUTTER HEALTH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,916,169 to it, the largest being THOMAS P RALEY FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUTTER HEALTH have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,916,169 in grants to SUTTER HEALTH, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUTTER HEALTH?
THOMAS P RALEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUTTER HEALTH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing