Health & medicine
Baptist Health
Provides health services and health education in Arkansas through a Christian nonprofit health system.
EIN 71-0236856 · Reporting period Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024
Financial data retrieved Oct 17, 2026 · Automated source check Oct 17, 2026
How to read this scorecard →Spending & reporting score
The score combines reported program spending, the financial documents reviewed, and the age of those records.
Not an impact rating. This is not a percentage of your gift.
What makes up the score? ↓How the money was spent
For every $100 spent:
- Patient care & health educationIncludes the staff and supplies for this work.
- About $9191.0% of expenses
- Raising fundsAsking for and collecting support.
- About $00.0% of expenses
- Running the organizationManagement and everyday administration.
- About $99.0% of expenses
Reported expense allocation for FY 2024. Total: $1,417,162,219. Rounded amounts may not add to $100.
See the numbers in the source (opens a new tab)What the figures show
About $91 out of every $100 spent went toward patient care and health education.
This includes the cost of staff, supplies and other resources used for that work. It is not all money handed to people.
Spending figures describe accounting allocations. They do not measure a program’s quality or results.
Explore this organization
Learn about its programs and find its donation options on the official website.
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Sources and financial context
What the spending picture leaves out
Entity-level Form 990 expenses. Donated assets, shared fundraising activities and grants can affect ratios. A cash-only ratio is not established.
Spending ratios alone do not establish effectiveness or waste. Outcome evidence has not been assessed. Financial figures alone cannot show the quality or results of this work.
Program share uses Part IX line 25, column B divided by column A. The filing scope can differ from a consolidated audit or affiliated charity network.
Noncash valuation and joint-cost treatment have not been separately reviewed for this profile.
The filing describes activity and spending; Charity Clarity has not reviewed evidence of outcomes caused per donation.
How the score works, in plain language
The score combines three financial and reporting measures. It describes the records reviewed, not the effectiveness of a charity’s programs.
- Spending on the cause60% of the score
- 54.6 of 60 points
- Source records25% of the score
- 12.5 of 25 points
- Age of records15% of the score
- 15.0 of 15 points
Our assessment of reported spending and source records. Not an audit or a guarantee of impact.
An independent audit was not reviewed for this snapshot. That does not mean the charity lacks one. Expense figures were extracted by code and checked for matching totals.
Methodology financial-balanced-1.0. Age measured at Oct 17, 2026.
Full calculation and limitations →Sources, scope and reporting dates
Form 990 filing entity: Baptist Health; not assumed to consolidate all affiliates
IRS Form 990, fiscal year ended 2024-12-31. Part IX, line 25, columns A through D. IRS e-file data rendered by ProPublica.
Source snapshot retrieved Oct 17, 2026. Figures, EIN and period end matched against the source by code on Oct 17, 2026. This is not a human audit.
See the numbers in the source (opens a new tab)Official website source recorded Oct 17, 2026. Visit source website (opens a new tab)
Organization website from its IRS Form 990, with source-backed corrections where recorded. This is a homepage, not a verified payment endpoint.