Where can I find St. Jude’s audited financial statements and IRS Form 990?
Executive summary
St. Jude’s IRS Forms 990 and audited financial statements are publicly posted on St. Jude’s official website under its financial information pages, where multiple years of Form 990 PDFs and audit-related documents are available [1][2][3]. Independent databases and watchdogs such as ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and Charity Navigator also aggregate and link to St. Jude’s Form 990 filings and, where applicable, copies of audited financial statements copied from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse [4][5][6].
1. Where St. Jude publishes its Form 990 and audits on its site
St. Jude hosts its most recent and past Form 990 returns and related financial PDFs directly on stjude.org in a financial-information section; specific fiscal-year Form 990 documents for 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are available as downloadable PDFs on that site [3][7][1][2][8]. These PDFs typically include the IRS Form 990 pages and any attached Schedule O notes and can indicate whether the organization attached audited financial statements to the return as required for hospital organizations [1][9].
2. How to find audited financial statements and what to expect there
For hospital organizations the IRS instructions require attaching the most recent audited financial statements to the Form 990, and Form 990 schedules ask whether audited financial statements were attached and prepared by an independent accountant, so St. Jude’s posted returns and schedules should show that status and sometimes include the audited statements themselves [10][9][1]. Charity-focused reviewers also check the charity’s site for published audited financial statements for the fiscal year represented by the latest Form 990, and note whether the audit is posted alongside the return [6].
3. Third‑party aggregators: ProPublica, Instrumentl and others
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer aggregates IRS Form 990 filings for multiple St. Jude-related EINs and provides bulk PDF downloads of filings since 2017, and in some cases links to audits copied from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse when available [4][5]. Instrumentl and similar services create readable 990 reports based on IRS data pulled from those filings, useful for searching Form 990 content such as executive compensation and financial schedules [11].
4. The Federal Audit Clearinghouse and single-audit notices
Audits that are required under federal single-audit rules (for nonprofits spending $750,000+ in federal awards in a year) are cataloged in the Federal Audit Clearinghouse; ProPublica and Nonprofit Explorer note that those audits are copied from that clearinghouse when they exist and linked in their archives [4][5]. If a user needs audit workpapers or single-audit reports specifically, the clearinghouse and ProPublica links are the logical next step [4].
5. Practical steps to obtain the documents quickly
Locate St. Jude’s financial-information page on stjude.org and download the relevant fiscal-year Form 990 PDF (examples include FY2018, FY2019, FY2022–2024 documents listed on the site) to see whether audited financial statements are attached or referenced [3][7][1][2][8]. If a posted return flags an audit or federal single-audit, follow links from that return to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse or consult ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer entry for St. Jude’s EIN to download alternate copies of the same filings [5][12].
6. Why multiple sources matter and where discrepancies can appear
Because nonprofits file returns with the IRS and may also post audited statements on their own sites, independent databases like ProPublica and charity raters like Charity Navigator cross-check both sources; these intermediaries may host alternate copies or earlier filings, so comparing St. Jude’s site with ProPublica’s archive and Charity Navigator’s links reduces the risk of relying on an outdated or amended filing [4][6][5]. The IRS’s own instructions make clear which documents hospitals should attach, so checking the Form 990’s Part IV/Part XI/XII and Schedule O entries on the PDFs will show whether audited statements were included [9][1].