COXHEALTH is based in Springfield, Missouri. Its website describes CoxHealth as a not-for-profit health system serving 25 counties through six hospitals and more than 100 clinics. The IRS filing data identifies its filing type as 990T.
Key facts about Coxhealth
In short: Coxhealth reported $391K in grants paid in 2025 (a total; its filing lists no individual grants). Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- EIN
- 47-1087427
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025
- Grants paid (2025)
- $390,582 — reported as a total on the IRS filing, without an itemized list
- Total assets
- $1,982,433,306
- How to apply
- The website encourages eligible organizations to apply for a sponsorship. Full details ↓
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026. Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Financial Overview
From 2025 IRS Form 990 · View filing
Total Assets
$2.0B
+12.1% YoY
Grants Paid (reported total)
$391K
+53.4% YoY
Revenue
$394.6M
+22.1% YoY
Net Investment Income
$7.0M
-16.4% YoY
Mission & Focus Areas
CoxHealth’s mission is to improve the health of the communities it serves. Its community sponsorship program focuses on children’s health and improving community health. The website says sponsorship consideration is for events that directly benefit or serve community members, or for organizations whose primary mission is directly improving local community health.
A 2022 grantee, Burrell Inc., describes its own mission as meeting behavioral health needs when and where they occur and before they become more serious, and providing as much care as needed, but no more than needed.
Grantmaking
CoxHealth’s website invites organizations to apply for community sponsorships. The IRS filing data lists zero grants for each of 2023, 2024 and 2025. Separately, the available grant information identifies a $118,000 award to Burrell Inc. in 2022; no total giving, grant count, or typical award size for that year is provided.
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Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
CoxHealth describes its health system as serving 25 counties. For community sponsorship eligibility, the website specifies organizations located within its 24-county primary and secondary service area.
Grant Distribution by State
States
Cities
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2020 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $6K (2021) to $391K (2025). In 2025 it reported $391K in grants paid, as a total without an itemized list.
Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Grant Insights
How this funder distributes its grants
Grant Size Distribution
3 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 2 grants of 3 (67%).
Giving History
Grant recipients and amounts by year
No grants recorded for 2025.
Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grant count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,982,433,306 | $394,598,058 | $394,601,063 | 0 |
| 2024 | $1,768,812,895 | $323,117,487 | $322,708,977 | 0 |
| 2023 | $1,548,484,472 | $257,890,305 | $256,068,986 | 0 |
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Assets | $1,982,433,306 | $1,768,812,895 | $1,548,484,472 |
| Revenue | $394,598,058 | $323,117,487 | $257,890,305 |
| Expenses | $394,601,063 | $322,708,977 | $256,068,986 |
| Net Investment Income | $7,031,380 | $8,407,557 | $1,047,296 |
Data update history
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS August 10, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS August 10, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS August 14, 2023)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS August 11, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS August 14, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS August 14, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS August 14, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Hal L Higdon as chair, Sally Hargis as first vice chair, and Jefferson M Tynes as second vice chair. It lists Brad E Erwin, Brian R Jared, Carol Taylor, Charles Chuck Chalender, Daphne Lemon, Dennis J Heim, and Howard E Jarvis as board members.
Coxhealth is led by Steve Edwards, Former President & CEO since 2023 (on filings since 2019); 22 of 44 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Steve Edwards
Former President & CEO
President & CEO → President & CEO Coxhealth, 2022
President & CEO Coxhealth → Former President & CEO, 2023
On filings since 2019
$1.5M (2019) → $622K (2025)
Max D. Buetow
President & CEO
Executive Vice President & COO → President & Coxhealth CEO, 2022
President & Coxhealth CEO → President & CEO, 2023
On filings since 2021
38 hrs/week
$277K (2021) → $1.6M (2025)
Timothy L. Jones
Executive Vice President & President Cmg
Joc Chair → President Cmg, 2023
President Cmg → Executive Vice President & President Cmg, 2025
On filings since 2019
38 hrs/week
$397K (2019) → $842K (2025)
Staci D. Rogers MD
Joc Chair
Chief Transformational Officer → Joc Chair, 2023
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$616K (2022) → $589K (2025)
Hal L. Higdon
Chair
2nd Vice Chair of the Board → 1st Vice Chair, 2022
1st Vice Chair → Chair, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Andrew Hedgpeth
Vice President
Vice President Hr → Vice President, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$241K (2019) → $493K (2025)
Charity R. Elmer
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Senior Vice President & General Counsel → Executive Vice President & General Counsel, 2020
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$586K (2019) → $942K (2025)
David Raney
Vice President Coxhealth Network
Vice President Coxhealth Network → Vice President & Coxhealth Network, 2023
Vice President & Coxhealth Network → Vice President Coxhealth Network, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$269K (2019) → $418K (2025)
David Taylor
Corporate Vice President
Vice President Corporate Services → Corporate Vice President, 2020
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$315K (2019) → $370K (2025)
Jacob M. McWay
Executive Vice President & Coxhealth CFO
Senior Vice President & CFO → Executive Vice President & CFO, 2020
Executive Vice President & CFO → Executive Vice President & Coxhealth CFO, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$892K (2019) → $1.3M (2025)
Jann M. Holland
Vice President Marketing
Vice President Marketing → Vice President & Marketing, 2023
Vice President & Marketing → Vice President Marketing, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$248K (2019) → $341K (2025)
Rodney E. Schaffer
Vice President & Facilities Management
Vice President Facilities Management → Vice President & Facilities Management, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$260K (2019) → $357K (2025)
Vickie J. Nelson
Secretary
Secretary → Board Secretary, 2022
Board Secretary → Secretary, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$66K (2019) → $77K (2025)
Ron J. Prenger
Former Executive Vice President & COO
Executive Vice President & COO → Former Executive Vice President & COO, 2025
On filings since 2020
$537K (2020) → $118K (2025)
Sarah A. Craigmyle
Vice President & Corporate Compliance
Vice President Corporate Compliance → Vice President & Corporate Compliance, 2023
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$174K (2021) → $272K (2025)
Daphne R. Lemon MD
Board Member
Boad Member → Board Member, 2023
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$443K (2022) → $598K (2025)
Nana Gaisie
Board Member
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$630K (2022) → $474K (2025)
Susan E. Graves MD
Board Member
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$435K (2022) → $457K (2025)
Amanda B. Hedgpeth
Executive Vice President & COO
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$396K (2023) → $803K (2025)
Cheryl A. Hertel
Vice President & CIO
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$248K (2023) → $643K (2025)
George P. Murfee III
Chief Technology Officer
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$175K (2023) → $437K (2025)
John D. Chastain
Vice President Rev Cycle & Finance
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$197K (2023) → $313K (2025)
Teresa Coyan
Vice President & Governmental Affairs
Vice President of Government Relations → Vice President & Governmental Affairs, 2025
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$252K (2024) → $321K (2025)
Brad E. Erwin
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Brian R. Jared
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Carol A. Taylor
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Charles Chuck Chalender
Board Member
1st Vice Chair of the Board → Chair of the Board, 2020
Chair of the Board → Board Member, 2022
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Dennis J. Heim
Board Member
Chairman of the Board → Board Member, 2020
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Howard E. Jarvis III
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Ibrahim Abe Abdalla MD
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
James W. Hutcheson
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jan M. Baumgartner
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jefferson M. Tynes
2nd Vice Chair
Board Member → 3rd Vice Chair, 2022
3rd Vice Chair → 2nd Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Joseph W. Turner
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Julia L. Flax MD
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Kurt Hellwig
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Larry W. Lipscomb
Board Member
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Robert C. Fulp
Board Member
1st Vice Chair of the Board → Chair, 2022
Chair → Board Member, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sally Hargis
1st Vice Chair
3rd Vice Chair of the Board → 2nd Vice Chair, 2022
2nd Vice Chair → 1st Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Krystal L. Russell
Board Member
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Robert Cox
Board Member
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Stuart Lipscomb
Board Member
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Pamela Yancey
Board Member
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Thomas Douglas
Board Member
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (21)
- Former: Howard Fisk (2019–2024) — Board Member
- Former: Phillip D. Loyd (2019–2024) — Board Member
- Former: Robin E. Robeson (2019–2024) — Board Member
- Former: Deanna M. Maples (2023–2024) — Vice President & Accting
- Former: John D. Raney (2024) — Vice President & Coxhealth Network
- Former: Janice Harris (2019–2022) — Board Member
- Former: Thomas Auner (2019–2022) — Board Member
- Former: Timothy Cloyd (2019–2022) — Board Member
- Former: David Zolfaghari MD (2019–2021) — Board Member
- Former: James Gibson MD (2019–2021) — Board Member
- Former: Patricia Dix MD (2019–2021) — Board Member
- Former: Robert McDowell (2019–2021) — Board Member
- Former: Staci Rogers Niemoth (2019–2021) — Joc Chair
- Former: Betty Breshears (2019–2020) — Vice President Corporate Compliance
- Former: Bruce Robison (2019–2020) — CIO
- Former: Christopher Wyatt (2019) — President Begin
- Former: Darren Bass (2019) — Interim President
- Former: James Anderson (2019) — Vice President Legislative Affairs
- Former: John Jack Prim (2019) — Board Member
- Former: Robert Mahaffey (2019) — Board Member
- Former: Wendy Duvall (2019) — President Cbch
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $1.6M, to Max D Buetow (President & CEO). 22 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Contact
Mailing address: 1423 N Jefferson, Springfield, MO 65802
Phone: (417) 269-3000
Website: https://coxhealth.com
Frequently asked questions about Coxhealth
How much does Coxhealth give each year?
Coxhealth reported $391K in grants paid in 2025 on its 2025 IRS Form 990, as a total without an itemized list of grants. In 2024 it reported $255K in grants paid.
How large is Coxhealth?
Coxhealth reported $2.0B in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $394.6M.
What does Coxhealth fund?
CoxHealth’s mission is to improve the health of the communities it serves. Its community sponsorship program focuses on children’s health and improving community health. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Coxhealth?
The website encourages eligible organizations to apply for a sponsorship. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
Where does Coxhealth make grants?
CoxHealth describes its health system as serving 25 counties. For community sponsorship eligibility, the website specifies organizations located within its 24-county primary and secondary service area.
What is Coxhealth's EIN?
Coxhealth's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 47-1087427. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
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