Geisinger Medical Center
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
Points to look into
- It reported loans to or from officers, directors or other insiders.
These come from the organization's own tax return. There may be a good explanation; ask the charity.
What it says it does
STRIVE TO MAKE BETTER HEALTH EASIER BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, HIGH QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES THROUGH EQUITABLE, INNOVATIVE, AND INCLUSIVE CARE MODELS THAT SUPPORT PATIENT CARE, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, & COMMUNITY SERVICES.
- Income
- $2.0 billion
- Spending
- $1.8 billion
- Spent on programs
- 97%
- Reserves
- -2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 98%
- Employees
- 8,480
- Volunteers
- 146
- Highest pay
- $14.3 million, president, director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 47 out of 100. Higher than 26% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Reserves
0 of 35Spendable reserves are negative: it owes or has committed more than it holds.
Debt
2 of 20It owes 97% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 13% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 7% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1597% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 90 out of 100. Higher than 27% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 254 of 7 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
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
0 of 10Reports at least one of: diversion of assets, excess benefits, loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, 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 (1)
- $1.7 billion spent. I. GENERAL PROGRAM SERVICE INFORMATION SINCE 1915, GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER (GMC), A 501(C)(3) NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, HAS BEEN PROVIDING HIGH-QUALITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. GEISINGER IS HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING A LEVEL I TRAUMA CENTER, THE REGION'S LONE PEDIATRIC TRAUMA CENTER, THE RENOWNED JANET WEIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, THE STATE-OF-THE-ART HOSPITAL FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE AND CLINICAL RESEARCH FACILITIES. LOCATED IN DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A PREDOMINANTLY RURAL AREA, GMC OPERATES A 541 BED FACILITY ALONG WITH A 48 BED HOSPITAL LOCATED IN COAL TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA. PHYSICIANS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SURROUNDING STATES REFER THEIR MOST COMPLEX CASES TO GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER WHERE THE EXISTENCE OF QUATERNARY HEALTHCARE IN A GENERALLY RURAL AND MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATION IS UNCOMMON. GMC'S LIFE FLIGHT IS THE LEADER IN MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORTATION IN THE REGION SPECIALIZING IN TRANSPORTING CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS, INCLUDING PREMATURE NEWBORNS, CARDIAC PATIENTS, ORGAN TRANSPLANT PATIENTS AND ACCIDENT VICTIMS. A. SPECIALTIES AND SUBSPECIALTIES GEISINGER CLINIC PHYSICIANS PRACTICING AT GMC PROVIDE SKILLED SERVICES IN NUMEROUS SPECIALTY AND SUBSPECIALTY AREAS. SPECIAL SERVICES AVAILABLE INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: ADULT & PEDIATRIC TRAUMA CENTER MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE ADULT MEDICAL ONCOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AERO-MEDICAL SERVICES MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY ACUTE INTERVENTION IN MOHS SURGERY MYOCARDIAL INFRACTION MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS ANTICOAGULATION CLINIC MOVEMENT DISORDERS BACLOFEN PUMPS NEUROENDOVASCULAR BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID, BAHA NEUROMUSCULAR BALANCE CENTER NEUROPSYCH BARIATRIC SURGERY NEUROPATHOLOGY BLOOD BANK NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BLOOD CONSERVATION NEUROSTIMULATORS BODY CONTOURING NEUROTRAUMA BRAIN TUMOR NUCLEAR STRESS TESTING BREAST SURGERY OPEN HEART SURGERY CANCER GENETICS CLINIC OPHTHALMOLOGY: GLAUCOMA, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY RETINAL, PEDIATRIC, CARDIAC CAT SCAN ANGIOGRAPHY CORNEA, GENERAL CARDIAC MRI TESTING OPHTHALMOPLASTIC SURGERY CAROTID STENTING ORTHOPAEDICS: TRAUMA, SPINE, HAND CAT SCAN CARDIAC SCORING SPORTS MEDICINE: PEDIATRIC, CAT SCAN JOINT, FOOT/ANKLE, GENERAL CHEMISTRY ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY CHEMO-EMBOLIZATION OF LIVER PEDIATRIC CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY AND KIDNEY CANCER PEDIATRIC GENETICS CLEFT PALATE CLINIC PEDIATRIC MEDICAL ONCOLOGY COAGULATION PEDIATRIC NEURODEVELOPMENT COCHLEAR IMPLANT PEDIATRIC OBESITY COLORECTAL SURGERY PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION CORNEAL TRANSPLANTS PEDIATRIC SURGERY CYTOLOGY PEDIATRIC UROLOGY DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION PEDIATRIC COCHLEAR IMPLANT DERMATOPATHOLOGY PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY/NEUROSURGERY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY PET SCANS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY PODIATRY EMERGENCY SERVICES PRE-SURGERY CENTER ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES PSYCHIATRY, ADOLESCENCE ENDOVASCULAR GRAFT IMPLANTS RADIATION ONCOLOGY EPILEPSY REGIONAL ANESTHESIA PROGRAM EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY RENAL DENERVATION GYNONCOLOGY ROBOTIC SURGERY GYNECOLOGIC & UROPATHOLOGY SKULL BASE SURGERY HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY SLEEP DISORDERS LABORATORY HEADACHE SPINAL BIFIDA CLINIC HEART FAILURE SPINAL CORD INJURY HEMATOLOGY SPINE SURGERY HEMATOPATHOLOGY SPINE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM HEPATIC INTRA-ARTERIAL CHEMOTHERAPY STEM CELL TRANSPLANT HIGH DOSE INTERLEUKIN-2 THERAPY STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY HIGH DOSE RATE INTRACAVITARY STRETTA, LASER PROCEDURE BRACHYTHERAPY STROKE/TELE-STROKE IMMUNOLOGY SURGICAL ONCOLOGY: COLON, LIVER, INFERTILITY PANCREAS, ESOPHAGEAL, & RENAL INTENSIVE O/P PSYCHIATRIC PROGRAM SURGICAL PATHOLOGY INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION INTRA-OPERATIVE HEPATIC ULTRASOUND TISSUE BANKING AND RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY LIVER TUMORS TOXICOLOGY KIDNEY, LIVER & PANCREAS TRANSPLANTS TRAUMA SURGERY LASER SURGERY, YAG LASER UROGYNECOLOGY LVAD, LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE VAGAL NERVE STIMULATORS MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING WOUND CARE MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM B. RESIDENCY, FELLOWSHIP AND ALLIED HEALTH PROGRAMS GMC CONDUCTS 32 GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY PROGRAMS AND 26 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS. THERE WERE 607 GRADUATE PHYSICIANS PARTICIPATING IN THESE PROGRAMS IN THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024. PROGRAM SPECIALTIES ARE AS FOLLOWS BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: RESIDENCY PROGRAMS: ANESTHESIOLOGY OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY CHILD NEUROLOGY OPHTHALMOLOGY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY COLON & RECTAL SURGERY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY DERMATOLOGY OTOLARYNGOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY PATHOLOGY INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY INTEGRATED PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE PEDIATRICS FAMILY MEDICINE PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHAB. GENERAL SURGERY PLASTIC SURGERY INTERNAL MEDICINE PODIATRY INTERNAL MEDICINE - PEDIATRICS UROLOGY NEUROLOGY TRANSITIONAL YEAR NEUROSURGERY VASCULAR SURGERY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS: DERMATOPATHOLOGY HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY MICROGRAPHIC SURGERY & HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE DERMATOLOGIC ONCOLOGY INFECTIOUS DISEASE INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY SPORTS MEDICINE NEPHROLOGY ADDICTION MEDICINE PULMONARY MEDICINE SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE RHEUMATOLOGY VASCULAR SURGERY SLEEP MEDICINE CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE MEDICAL PHYSICS CLINICAL CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY VASCULAR NEUROLOGY CLINICAL INFORMATICS MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CYTOPATHOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY PEDIATRIC SPORTS MEDICINE GMC OPERATED TWO SCHOOLS OF ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION. THESE SCHOOLS ARE OPERATED WITHIN GMC IN CONJUNCTION WITH VARIOUS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. IN ADDITION TO CLASSROOM TIME, STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE CLINICAL EDUCATION HOURS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THEIR CURRICULUM. DURING THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024, THE CHAPLAIN SCHOOL HAD ONE STUDENT AND THE PHARMACY RESIDENCY PROGRAM HAD NINE STUDENTS. THE TOTAL COST TO GMC OF PROVIDING RESIDENCY, FELLOWSHIP, ALLIED HEALTH, AND RELATED EDUCATION PROGRAMS, NET OF THIRD-PARTY REIMBURSEMENTS WAS $34,375,538. C. TRAUMA CARE IN OCTOBER 1986 GMC W
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, 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 October 13, 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 December 2024.
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 October 1937.
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 October 21, 2026.
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