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Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$84MEducation$162k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $432k
  • $250k+7 grants · $11M
$130,959
Median grant
1
States reached
$98M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mercy Hospital$2,782,022
Eastern Maine Medical Center$2,682,056
Charles A Dean Memorial Hosp$2,423,669
VNA Home Health & Hospice$1,020,326
Maine Coast Regional Health F$816,061
Acadia Hospital Corp$788,995
The Aroostook Medical Center$416,617
Inland Hospital$130,959
Sebasticook Valley Health$97,663
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital$73,105
MRH Corp$70,296
Northern Light Medical Trans$60,144
Husson University$15,785
EMMC Auxiliary$11,015
Lakewood$6,572
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mercy Hospital: $2.3M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $2.7M → 11%Inland Hospital: $432k → 12%The Aroostook Medical Center: $911k → 15%Sebasticook Valley Health: $192k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $1.6M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $1.5M → 11%The Aroostook Medical Center: $501k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $8.3M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $1.4M → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $1.8M → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $451k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $3.6M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $851k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $1.4M → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $436k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $3.5M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $494k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $469k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $317k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $2.0M → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $356k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospi: $383k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $312k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $595k → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $329k → 11%Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital: $294k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $308k → 15%Mercy Hospital: $412k → 7%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $298k → 11%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $736k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $2.5M → 11%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $395k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $1.0M → 11%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $328k → 7%Blue Hill Memorial Hospital: $196k → 11%Mercy Hospital: $2.8M → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $239k → 7%Eastern Maine Medical Center: $2.7M → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $207k → 7%Charles A Dean Memorial Hosp: $2.4M → 15%Acadia Hospital Corp: $1.2M → 15%VNA Home Health & Hospice: $1.0M → 15%Maine Coast Regional Health F: $816k → 15%Acadia Hospital Corp: $789k → 15%Acadia Hospital Corp: $672k → 15%The Aroostook Medical Center: $417k → 15%Acadia Hospital Corp: $280k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96M · 15 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$96M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital
    8× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +27%
  • LN
    Lakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood
    7× · 2017–2025 · $419k · revenue +11%
  • HU
    Husson University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • PC
    Penobscot Community Health Center
    one grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue +4%
  • EM
    EASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • LF
    LifeFlight Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northern Light Health Foundation

Raise & manage funds for exempt organizations

Health
2
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
3
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
4
Maine Emergency Squad Inc

Our mission is to provide exceptional Advanced Life Support and medical care to our communities in Upstate New York. As a proud 501(c)3 non-profit organization, we serve the Town of Maine, Town of Nanticoke, the Village and Town of Newark…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
6
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
—
7
Bailey Barnett Moore Nursing Scholarship Inc
Education
8
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
10
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
12
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health; the most unlike its peers is Rosscare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $37,432,537 · HealthEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical CenMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $25,101,455 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy HospitalMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $8,723,556 · HealthMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast HospitalCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital: $6,849,367 · HealthCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean HospitalTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL: $4,276,469 · HealthTHE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER NORTHERN LIGHT AR GOULD HOSPITAL: $3,791,709 · HealthAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $3,397,411 · HealthVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice: $3,372,760 · Health+8 more: $2,810,672 · HealthHusson University: $178,051 · EducationRosscare: $16,363 · OtherEASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH: $6,278 · Other
Health$95,755,936Education$178,051Other$22,641

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen: $37,432,537 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $25,101,455 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $8,723,556 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetCharles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light CA Dean Hospital: $6,849,367 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL: $4,276,469 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER NORTHERN LIGHT AR GOULD HOSPITAL: $3,791,709 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAcadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital: $3,397,411 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetVNA Home Health & Hospice Northern Light Home Care & Hospice: $3,372,760 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetINLAND HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT INLAND HOSPITAL: $1,120,252 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp: $711,936 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLakewood Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood: $419,126 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetEastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary: $199,727 over 8y, 95% of budgetHusson University: $178,051 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital: $171,477 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center: $122,634 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light Medical Transport Northern Light Medical Transport & Emerg: $60,144 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTERN MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH: $6,278 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $5,376 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Davis Family Foundati…Maine Hospital Associ…Maine Community Found…Maine Cancer Foundati…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Davis Family FoundationME32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Family Foundation · Maine Hospital Association Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Cancer Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern Light Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Light Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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