Renown Regional Medical Center
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
- Income
- $1.4 billion
- Spending
- $1.3 billion
- Spent on programs
- 84%
- Reserves
- -3.6 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 99%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 346
- Highest pay
- $2.1 million, president/ceo
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 89% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 10% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 21% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1584% 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: 100 out of 100. Higher than 53% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2510 of 11 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
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or 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)
- $1.1 billion spent. See Schedule ORenown Regional Medical Center is an accredited, 826-licensed bed, general and acute-care hospital serving communities in Nevada and northeastern California. A not-for-profit hospital offering a full range of medical, diagnostic and ancillary services, Renown Regional provides the only designated Level II Trauma Center between Sacramento and Salt Lake City. It is a teaching hospital for the professional development of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno and the region's healthcare professionals.Renown Regional provides necessary healthcare services regardless of race, creed, sex, gender, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. People in our community have access to Renown Regional services in specialties including: cancer, heart, neurosciences, orthopedics, surgery, intensive and emergency care, behavioral health, addiction, and women's and children's health. Renown is governed by a board of community members, the majority of who live in our primary service area and who are neither employees, independent contractors or family members. Renown has a medical staff of over 1,500 and extends privileges on its medical staff to all eligible and qualified physicians and allied health professionals. As a non-profit organization, we reinvest every dollar we earn back into the communities we serve, through staffing, technology, treatment, and training to enhance patient care, medical education and research.As part of an integrated health network, Renown Regional provides many services to the community that otherwise would require people travel to other cities to receive care. These programs, services and technology include: a Level II Trauma Center for adults and children, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ECMO, Renown Transplant Institute (kidney), TomoTherapy High Art System, Varian TrueBeam, biplane angiography, a dedicated PET/CT scanner, a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, comprehensive amputee services, a NAEC accredited level III Epilepsy Center, an ABRET-accredited Epilepsy Monitoring Lab, an Intersocietal Commission-accredited Echocardiography Lab, multi-specialty da Vinci Robotic Surgery Program, a Chest Pain Center using the D-SPECT heart camera, and first in the West to implement the Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program. Renown Regional also offers access to the largest number of clinical research trials in the region.Renown Regional is comprised of the Medical Center and multiple Centers for Advanced Medicine. Renown Regional offers more than 40 physician specialties, including breast surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, gynecologic oncology, infectious disease, neurosurgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pediatric anesthesia, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric neurology, pediatric orthopedics, pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric pulmonology, adolescent medicine, pediatric oncology and hematology, perinatology, plastic surgery, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, radiation therapy, radiology, rheumatology and urology.For the period ended December 31, 2024, Renown Regional, along with its parent, Renown Health and its subsidiaries, provided approximately $196 million in benefit to the community (using community benefit numbers gathered by the Nevada Hospital Association using state-approved criteria to ensure consistency). For a full report on the benefit Renown Health provided to our community as well as our needs assessment and community benefit plan go to https://www.renown.org/about/community-commitment/community-health-needs-assessment/.
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 September 7, 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 September 30, 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 September 10, 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 September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 1985.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 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 7, 2026.
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