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ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION

ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,435,811 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($45,328,207). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$150M
Funders on record
238
Grants received
$162M
Net assets
$549M
119/238 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Atrium Health Foundation does

Mission

In support of atrium health, we:inspire transformational giving to improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing - for all.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Support for medical education programs: provided operational funding for a variety of medical education programs conducted by ah hospitals to broaden medical knowledge, trained hundreds of new medical professionals, and enhanced medical care for thousands of patients in the carolinas.

    $10,000,000 spentof which $10,000,000 as grants
    23% of program spending
  2. Support for community health education & awareness programs

    $10,561,479 spentof which $10,561,479 as grants
    25% of program spending
  3. Support for children's programs & services: provided significant support for medical equipment & programming in newborn & pediatric units throughout ah hospitals.

    $7,234,938 spentof which $7,234,938 as grants
    17% of program spending
  4. Support for medical, nursing & allied health education: provided operating & student scholarship support for ah's nursing & allied health educational programs that graduate hundreds of professionals annually to serve area hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

    $1,811,298 spentof which $1,811,298 as grants
    4% of program spending
  5. Support for physical medicine and rehabilitation: funding for new infastructure, programs, education, advanced technology and equipment for the rehabilitation of disabled patients

    $670,674 spentof which $670,674 as grants
    2% of program spending
  6. Support for muscular dystrophy research programs

    $928,733 spentof which $928,733 as grants
    2% of program spending
  7. Support for carolinas neuromuscular/als center

    $321,012 spentof which $321,012 as grants
    1% of program spending
  8. Support for emergency medicine & trauma programs

    $378,691 spentof which $378,691 as grants
    1% of program spending
  9. Support for ah general and minimally invasive surgery programs

    $682,296 spentof which $682,296 as grants
    2% of program spending
  10. Support for sanger heart & vascular institute facilities & related programs

    $2,751,840 spentof which $2,751,840 as grants
    6% of program spending
  11. Support for ah orthopaedic research

    $308,158 spentof which $308,158 as grants
    1% of program spending
  12. Support for ah neuroscience research/education

    $369,584 spentof which $369,584 as grants
    1% of program spending
  13. Support for cmc-mercy facilities and programs

    $131,615 spentof which $131,615 as grants
    0% of program spending
  14. Support for ah behavioral health programs & education

    $792,575 spentof which $792,575 as grants
    2% of program spending
  15. Support for ah long-term care & hospice programs

    $614,984 spentof which $614,984 as grants
    1% of program spending
  16. Support for cancer programs & research: provide substantial operational funding for a variety of cancer programs and research initiatives conducted by ah hospitals.

    $5,227,927 spentof which $5,227,927 as grants
    12% of program spending
  17. Support for regional hospitals and programs

    $6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 17 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,791,804.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($51M) Expenses 100 ($47M) Net assets 100 ($363M)2020 Revenue 118 ($60M) Expenses 101 ($47M) Net assets 109 ($396M)2021 Revenue 225 ($115M) Expenses 81 ($38M) Net assets 136 ($494M)2022 Revenue 165 ($84M) Expenses 96 ($45M) Net assets 128 ($463M)2023 Revenue 131 ($66M) Expenses 137 ($65M) Net assets 138 ($501M)2024 Revenue 295 ($150M) Expenses 110 ($52M) Net assets 152 ($549M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (295)Expenses (110)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $404M to $500M (+24%).

$368M
$404M
$500M
$470M
$508M
$557M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

42% of ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.8M
’19
$12M
’20
$77M
’21
$39M
’22
$1.9M
’23
$98M
’24
2.2
months of
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

Mandy S Houser

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed191924252626
Joined·+3+11+9+3+1
No longer listed·36821
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $5.5M → $28M.

26 of 238 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 238 funders by total. 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

ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION.

28%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 26% · 2019 18% · 2020 30% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

37% of ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

67% of ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin66% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Organizations like ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 3%Fundraising 14%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

64%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 27 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 62 related entities

  • 1025 Kings Drive Tenant LLC · exempt
  • Pineville Ltachrehab Hospital LLC · exempt
  • Rm1 Properties LLC · exempt
  • Rocky Road 1 LLC · exempt
  • Rr Assemblage LLC · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION?
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,435,811 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($45,328,207). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 238 organizations giving $162,435,811 in grants to ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $45,328,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 238 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing