Sutter Valley Hospitals
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
SEE SCHEDULE O
- Income
- $5.1 billion
- Spending
- $4.8 billion
- Spent on programs
- 90%
- Reserves
- 0.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 100%
- Employees
- 18,503
- Volunteers
- 873
- Highest pay
- $3.7 million, sh svp, coo/pres svh
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
Fair: 59 out of 100. Higher than 45% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Reserves
4 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 0.5 months of spending.
Debt
10 of 20It owes 39% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 7% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 10% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1590% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 5 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 52% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 257 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)
- $4.3 billion spent. SEE SCHEDULE 0 Sutter Valley Hospitals serves Sacramento, Placer, Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Yolo, Solano, Yuba, Sutter, Stanislaus, Merced, and San Joaquin counties with comprehensive health care. Sutter Valley Hospitals provided more than $1,228 million in charity care and community benefits and had a total of 497,843 patient days in 2024. Sutter Valley Hospitals is comprised of the following hospitals: Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital is licensed for 64 acute beds and is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is Medicare certified and accepts most private insurance plans. Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital's mission is to serve the healthcare needs of Auburn and the surrounding foothill communities. Through partnerships with physicians, payors, other health and human services agencies and with our employees and volunteer leadership, Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital seeks to provide a continuum of health and wellness services to assure a high quality of life for the people living in our service area. Sutter Amador Hospital is a 52-bed acute care hospital located in Jackson, California approximately 55 miles southeast of Sacramento in Amador County. The hospital was established in the mid-1800's and became affiliated with Sutter Health in 1993. Sutter Amador Hospital's mission is to enhance the health and well-being of the residents in the communities served by providing coordinated, effective, affordable, and accessible health and wellness services. Sutter Amador Hospital continuously strives to identify the health care needs of these communities and respond by providing health and wellness services consistent with the stated values and vision of the hospital. Sutter Davis Hospital is a two-story 90,000 square foot acute care hospital licensed for 57 beds that serves the health care needs of residents living in Davis, Dixon, Woodland and Winters. The facility is located in the western-most section of the City of Davis at the corner of Highway 113 and Covell Boulevard. Sutter Davis is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is Medicare certified and accepts most private insurance plans. As a not-for-profit hospital, Sutter Davis also donates many community services. Sutter Medical Center of Sacramento medical campus includes two acute care hospitals - Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center and Ose Adams Medical Pavilion, along with two buildings dedicated to doctors' offices and other care found in an outpatient setting. By locating all primary and specialty care services in a central location with convenient freeway access, patients and families now gain faster and easier access to needed medical services. The 242-bed Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center is a 10-story acute-care hospital where patients and their families can obtain the highest level of neonatal and pediatric intensive care services, pediatric cardiac, neurosurgery and cancer services, and high-risk and conventional maternity services. It replaces Sutter Memorial Hospital as "Sacramento's baby hospitalis home to the Sutter Children's Center, Sacramento, a comprehensive children's hospital inside the Women's and Children's Center. Among the features of the Women's and Children's Center: All private rooms, including those for new moms and our pediatric patients. The rooms have furniture that converts into beds for families to stay overnight with their loved ones. A life-saving helistop atop the building adjacent to the Capital City Freeway will allow for the quick and safe transport of preemies and other sick babies as well as other patients. Mothers who have given birth being treated to spacious suites with 8th-floor views of the city's skyline and the foothills. The neonatal intensive care unit features 61 beds for our tiniest and sickest babies in a setting that looks like home and allows families to be more involved in the babies' care. Facilities that include washers and dryers and a kitchen for families who have extensive stays. The 281-bed Ose Adams Medical Pavilion was previously known as Sutter General Hospital. While the outer shell of the Ose Adams Medical Pavilion remains much the same - with an expansion in the southeast corner to facilitate the dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department and other services - the transformation of the hospital includes major enhancements to all five floors with emphasis on five main services: emergency medicine, cardiovascular, neurosciences, orthopedics and oncology. The updated third floor contains 24 operating suites for inpatient surgeries. It is the new home for the Sutter Heart & Vascular Institute, which began at Sutter Memorial Hospital with the region's first open-heart surgeries in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ose Adams Medical Pavilion has six new heart catheterization labs and hybrid suites, and four specialized operating rooms dedicated to heart surgery - one set up solely for pediatric heart patients. Because of the complex brain and other surgeries and procedures, the Ose Adams Medical Pavilion houses 10 specially designed, private observation beds on the fifth floor. These observation units will contain state-of-the-art equipment dedicated to the specialized care of Sutter Neuroscience Institute patients. Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC) was established in 1952 and affiliated with Sutter Health in May 1993. In 1997, Sutter Health opened a 172-bed facility in the northeast area of Roseville, approximately 20 miles from downtown Sacramento. The hospital today has 382 beds and provides residents of southern Placer and northeastern Sacramento counties with comprehensive community health care. The facility has an expanded helipad onsite for quick access to the hospital's Level II Trauma Center, which serves a ten-county region that includes Placer, Yolo, Nevada, Sutter and Yuba counties, and portions of Sacramento and El Dorado counties. Sutter Roseville M
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 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 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 April 1936.
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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