Illinois · Nonprofit
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,400 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($110,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $562M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $243M
What Advocate Sherman Hospital does
Mission
The mission of Advocate Sherman Hospital is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Financial assistance (charity care) and trauma care. Providing inpatient and outpatient health care services to the community regardless of the patients' ability to pay.as part of its community health strategy, Advocate Sherman Hospital (advocate sherman) is committed to promoting initiatives that enahance access to health care for the uninsured and underinsured. An example of this is the provision of financial assistance. Advocate Sherman Hospital offers a very generous financial assistance program, requiring no payments from the patients most in need, and providing discounts to uninsured and insured patients. Patients earning up to six times the fpl, and insured patients earning up to two and half times the fpl, may qualify for a full or partial financial assistance discount. Additionally, a catastrophic assistance discount is available for uninsured and insured patients whose incomes exceed the traditional financial assistance income guidelines and have outstanding patient balances of $25,000 or more for a single date of service or sum of several dates of service. These patients may qualify to receive a financial assistance discount that reduces their outstanding balance to 25%…
$372,694,217 spent$509,808,337 earned by the program98% of program spendingHealth care services provided by physicians employed by the organization. Advocate sherman clinicians provide care to the community both at the hospital and in the community. Advocate sherman has more than 35 years of cardiovascular excellence focusing on proactively preventing, diagnosing and treating an array of heart conditions. As an accredited chest pain center through the society of cardiovascular patient care, advocate sherman is dedicated to the care of its cardiac patients. This accreditation means that the hospital integrates the industry's best practices to provide the best possible outcomes in cardiac care. The hospital's heart failure program has achieved advanced certification in heart failure designation for best practices in caring for heart failure patients. In 2022, advocate sherman provided 2,318 cardiac catherizations and 88 inpatient cardiovascular open-heart surgeries. Advocate sherman is recognized as a center of excellence in treating diseases and injuries of muscles, bones and joints and is a leader in state-of-the-art orthopedic diagnostic and treatment options. Depending on the injury or illness, treatment can range from non-surgical options, such as…
$5,996,454 spent2% of program spendingDescription of Advocate Sherman Hospital. Advocate health care based in illinois and aurora health care based in wisconsin merged to become advocate aurora health in april 2018. Advocate sherman is a 255-bed not-for-profit hospital located in elgin, illinois, and is one of 27 acute care hospitals in the advocate aurora health system. Advocate sherman provides acute inpatient and outpatient medical care to individuals residing in the greater elgin, illinois area. Founded in 1888, the hospital has expanded its services to several off-site locations, including three immediate care centers and a stand-alone imaging center. At all these sites of care, the hospital's 952 credentialed physicians and 1,681 team members (employees) provide quality and compassionate care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay for services received. The hospital has operated in its current location on randall road since december 2009. Advocate sherman has been recognized for its commitment to continually improving performance and patient care as demonstrated through its achievement of several awards. Considered the national "gold standard" for nursing excellence among hospitals, the hospital has…
$0 spent$1,251,886 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $378,690,671.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $514M to $440M (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Rev Nathaniel Edmond
Director, chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $110k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Advocate Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Advocate Health Care Network · exempt
- Advocate Condell Medical Center · exempt
- Advocate North Side Health Network · exempt
- Advocate Health & Hospitals Corporation · exempt
- Advocate Charitable Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL?
- ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,400 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($110,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $110,400 in grants to ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL?
- The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing