Sutter Health Alliance
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What it says it does
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- Income
- $837.8 million
- Spending
- $827.8 million
- Employees
- 94
- Volunteers
- 7
- Highest pay
- $2.8 million, svp, sh network president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. 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)
- $792.5 million spent. PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Sutter Health Alliance (formally known as Sutter Health Plan) is an affiliate of the Sutter Health system, a comprehensive network providing integrated care to more than 3 million patients annually through a network of hospitals, medical foundations, urgent and walk-in care centers, home health and hospice services. The Sutter Health system relies on the dedication of more than 85,000 clinicians, nurses, employees and volunteers to deliver high quality and affordable care to more than 100 communities. We believe that all people deserve access to excellent medical care-whoever they are and wherever they live. Sutter Health doctors, hospitals and other caregivers partner with each other to advance our medical services and increase patients' access to them. The primary purpose of Sutter Health Alliance is to improve the health of the community by increasing access to Sutter Health's network of high-quality doctors, hospitals and other health care services. The health plan promotes affordability through the delivery of cost-effective health care services; this includes partnering with our provider network to improve quality and reduce costs. Sutter Health Alliance is licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care as a Knox-Keene health maintenance organization with plan coverage beginning in January 2014. Sutter Health Alliance members are assigned primary care providers exclusively with physicians through related Sutter Health tax-exempt medical foundations. Sutter Health Alliance develops its plan products under a not-for-profit mission with a commitment to provide affordably priced HMO health plans in accordance with Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and federal guidelines that allow Northern California's socially and economically diverse communities to access high quality and accessible care at Sutter Health's network of doctors and hospitals. Sutter Health Alliance participates in activities designed to promote the general health of communities, promotes and encourages advancement and improvement of high-quality and cost-effective health care services; and facilitates the interchange of ideas among health care service organizations and communities served.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. 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)(4) social welfare 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? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, 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 November 2016.
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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