Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
SEE SCHEDULE O
- Income
- $3.4 billion
- Spending
- $3.2 billion
- Spent on programs
- 86%
- Reserves
- 0.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 95%
- Employees
- 14,173
- Volunteers
- 247
- Highest pay
- $4.7 million, ceo (ex-off) (ceo, bilh)
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Fair: 54 out of 100. Higher than 38% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Reserves
4 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 0.8 months of spending.
Debt
5 of 20It owes 61% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 6% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 10% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1586% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 16 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 95 out of 100. Higher than 36% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2517 of 24 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $2.8 billion spent. PATIENT CARE: THE MEDICAL CENTER IS PASSIONATE ABOUT LEADING-EDGE PATIENT CARE. THE MEDICAL CENTER'S PATIENTS RECEIVE TREATMENTS THAT ARE TODAY'S GOLD STANDARD OF CARE OR INNOVATIVE THERAPIES THAT WILL BECOME THE GOLD STANDARD OF TOMORROW. THE MEDICAL CENTER HAS DEVELOPED FIVE MAJOR COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTERS THAT ALLOW PHYSICIANS AND CLINICAL STAFF FROM MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES SUCH AS MEDICINE, SURGERY, PATHOLOGY, RADIOLOGY, ONCOLOGY, AND SOCIAL WORK TO WORK TOGETHER SO THAT OUR PATIENTS ARE RECEIVING THE MOST COORDINATED, COMPREHENSIVE CARE POSSIBLE. THESE CENTERS INCLUDE A CANCER CENTER, A CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE, A DIGESTIVE DISEASE CENTER, A SPINE CENTER, AND A TRANSPLANT INSTITUTE. OTHER NOTABLE AREAS WHERE THE MEDICAL CENTER LEADS THE WAY IN PATIENT CARE SPAN A WIDE ARRAY OF SERVICES INCLUDING AREAS SUCH AS VASCULAR SERVICES FOR PATIENTS WITH DIABETES COMPLICATIONS, AND OBSTETRIC CARE FOR ROUTINE PREGNANCIES AS WELL AS THE MOST COMPLEX PATIENT CIRCUMSTANCES. THE MEDICAL CENTER ALSO OFFERS A CENTER FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY, A STATE-OF-THE-ART EMERGENCY ROOM, A LEVEL ONE TRAUMA CENTER, AHEAD OF THE CURVE IMAGING SYSTEMS. THE MEDICAL CENTER WAS THE FIRST IN NEW ENGLAND TO OFFER A DYNAMIC NEW NONINVASIVE RADIATION THERAPY. SOME OF THE MEDICAL CENTER'S KEY STATISTICS FOR FY 2023 REGARDING PATIENT VOLUME ARE IDENTIFIED BELOW: OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL CARE DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS FILING, BIDMC HAD 806,153 OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTERS, 692,881 HOSPITAL CLINIC ENCOUNTERS, 9,120 OBSERVATION CASES, 13,953 PAIN CLINIC VISITS, 14,089 OUTPATIENT AMBULATORY SURGERIES, 22,995 OUTPATIENT ENDOSCOPY PROCEDURES, 103,975 OUTPATIENT EKG EXAMS, 44,007 OUTPATIENT ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES, 274,611 OUTPATIENT RADIOLOGY EXAMS, 62,189 OUTPATIENT CT SCANS, , 39,653 OUTPATIENT MRIS, 8,569 OTHER NUCLEAR MEDICINE TESTS, 2,740750 OUTPATIENT LAB TESTS, 49,164 AND OUTPATIENT REHABILITATION/PHYSICAL THERAPY VISITS. INPATIENT HOSPITAL CARE DURING ITS FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 BIDMC HAD 34,297 INPATIENT DISCHARGES WITH 240,970 PATIENT DAYS (INCLUDING 8,391 INPATIENT PSYCH/BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DAYS), HAD 4,931 NEWBORN DELIVERIES, 4,214 NORMAL NEWBORN DISCHARGES WITH 11,434 NORMAL NEWBORN PATIENT DAYS AND PERFORMED 10,022 INPATIENT SURGERIES. URGENT AND EMERGENT CARE BIDMC OPERATES AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) INCLUDING ACCESS TO LEVEL 1 TRAUMA CARE WHICH IS OPEN TO ALL PATIENTS IN NEED OF EMERGENT CARE, REGARDLESS OF ABILITY TO PAY. THE ED IS OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK, 365 DAYS A YEAR. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR COVERED BY THIS FILING, BIDMC HAD 55,047 EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISITS. IN ADDITION, BIDMC OPERATES SEVERAL URGENT CARE SITES IN ITS COMMUNITIES. THESE URGENT CARE LOCATIONS ARE STAFFED WITH THE SAME EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS THAT STAFF THE ED AND DURING THE FISCAL YEAR COVERED BY THIS FILING, BIDMC HAD 27,968 URGENT CARE VISITS. IN ADDITION, BIDMC IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING COMMUNITY BENEFITS IN THE COMMUNITIES IT SERVES. SEE FORM 990, SCHEDULE H FOR ADDITIONAL DETAIL.
- RESEARCH THE MEDICAL CENTER'S RESEARCH MISSION IS TO BE A WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH INSTITUTION WHERE OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS WORK TO DEVELOP NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE HEALTH OF THE LOCAL AND EXTENDED COMMUNITIES. THE RESEARCH PROGRAM STRIVES TO BE RENOWNED FOR ITS BENCH-TO-BEDSIDE MODEL OF TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND FOR ITS COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY AS A PATHWAY FOR TRANSFERRING THE FRUITS OF RESEARCH INTO PRODUCTS THAT IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE. THE MEDICAL CENTER COMMITS TO MAINTAIN A COLLABORATIVE CULTURE AND MODERN, HIGH-QUALITY FACILITIES AND TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE UNIQUE RELATIONSHIPS THAT EXIST AMONG HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE HARVARD TEACHING HOSPITALS AS WELL AS REACHING OUT AND COLLABORATING WITH NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AND WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERTS IN VARIOUS FIELDS. THE MEDICAL CENTER'S SCIENTISTS CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASES AND BETTER TREATMENTS FOR PATIENTS, WHICH IN TURN DIRECTLY IMPACTS THE LIVES OF PATIENTS AND IMPROVES THE MEDICAL CENTER'S PATIENT CARE. DURING THE FISCAL PERIOD COVERED BY THIS FILING, MORE THAN 1,800 ACTIVE FEDERAL, INDUSTRY AND FOUNDATION SPONSORED PROJECTS AND MORE THAN 2,400 ACTIVE EXEMPT, EXPEDITED, AND FULL BOARD-REVIEWED CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDIES. BIDMC RESEARCH IS LED BY MORE THAN 260 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, THE MAJORITY OF WHOM ARE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY. THE KEY AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE VASCULAR BIOLOGY, MOLECULAR IMAGING, TRANSPLANTATION, SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, CANCER BIOLOGY, METABOLIC DISEASE, NEUROBIOLOGY AND CARDIOLOGY/CARDIAC SURGERY. THE MEDICAL CENTER'S EXTRAORDINARY FACULTY HAS ESTABLISHED A CULTURE THAT IS COLLABORATIVE AND ORIENTED TOWARD TRANSLATING NEW KNOWLEDGE INTO NOVEL MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND PATIENT CARE. ADDITIONAL DETAIL IS INCLUDED IN FORM 990, SCHEDULE H.
- TEACHING THE MEDICAL CENTER'S DEVOTION TO TEACHING, TO RESPECTING STUDENTS, AND TO EMBRACING TECHNOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL PRACTICE INNOVATION MAKE THE MEDICAL CENTER A TOP CHOICE AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. THE MEDICAL CENTER TRAINS HUNDREDS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS, INTERNS AND RESIDENTS, AS WELL AS PROFESSIONALS IN NURSING, SOCIAL WORK AND THE ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES. THE MEDICAL CENTER THE MEDICAL CENTER HAS 63 ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION (ACGME) APPROVED CLINICAL RESIDENCY AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS WITH 736 RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL FELLOWS. IN ADDITION, THE MEDICAL CENTER HAS 48 NONSTANDARD CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS WITH 57 TRAINEES PER YEAR. STAFF PHYSICIANS AT THE MEDICAL CENTER WHO HOLD FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL INSTRUCT THE DOCTORS OF TOMORROW THROUGH SUPERVISION OF THEIR DAILY PATIENT CARE AND A RANGE OF INTERACTIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES. THE CARL J. SHAPIRO INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND BIDMC, A SUPPORT ORGANIZATION OF THE MEDICAL CENTER AND AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION AT THE MEDICAL CENTER, IS BOTH A "THINK TANK" FOR ADVANCING MEDICAL EDUCATION AND A UNIQUE TRAINING RESOURCE. WITHIN THE CENTER, THE CARL J. SHAPIRO SIMULATION AND SKILLS CENTER PROVIDES HIGH-TECH LEARNING EXPERIENCES ON TOPICS RANGING FROM MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY TO INTENSIVE CARE AND OFFERS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FACULTY MEMBERS TO SHARE YEARS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN MASTERING THE ART OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE WITH THEIR STUDENTS. IT ALSO OFFERS AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND EXTENSION OF MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS TO PRACTICE AND HONE THEIR MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SKILLS. IN ADDITION, THE BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH (BILH) NETWORK OF AFFILIATES ENGAGED IN SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IN THE PRIMARY CARE AND OTHER HEALTHCARE SETTINGS AS WELL AS OTHER HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES FOR THE COMMUNITIES SERVED. PLEASE SEE FORM 990 SCHEDULE H FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending September 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since November 1938.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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