Georgia · Nonprofit
CANDLER FOUNDATION INC
CANDLER FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $860,843 to it, the largest being THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($179,555). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $861k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Candler Foundation Inc does
Mission
Candler foundation, inc. Operates exclusively for the benefit and support of candler hospital, inc. And the other tax-exempt entities of st. Joseph's/candler health system, inc. Pursuant to irs sec. 501(c)(3).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Candler foundation, inc. Primarily supports candler hospital, inc., a 307- bed, acute care hospital in savannah, georgia, which services a metropolitan population base of approximately 379,000 and the surrounding counties. For the fiscal year 2025, candler foundation raised funds totaling 1,954,821 and provided grants of 1,681,467 to further the tax- exempt purpose of candler hospital and 33,814 to the related tax-exempt entities of st. Joseph's/candler health system, inc. Candler hospital furthers its exempt purpose by promoting health in the community by providing medical education to patients in the community, conducting research, and implementing technology that not only provides the latest in treatment, but allows patients to receive high quality of care in their own community and allows the hospital to continually improve patient safety by implementing technology that prevents medication errors, etc.
$2,045,960 spentof which $1,793,116 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,045,960.
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 2020 to 2021, from $10.0M to $12M (+24%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of CANDLER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Paul P Hinchey
CEO
Board chair
Robert E Jones Md
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $56k → $140k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Joseph's Foundation of Savannah Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CANDLER FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CANDLER FOUNDATION INC’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
CANDLER FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
99% 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 CANDLER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of CANDLER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
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
68% of CANDLER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $406k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
CANDLER FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CANDLER FOUNDATION INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- St Joseph'Scandler Health System · exempt
- Candler Hospital Inc · exempt
- Saint Joseph's Hospital Inc · exempt
- St Joseph's Foundation of Savannah · exempt
- Sjc Home Health Services Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANDLER FOUNDATION INC?
- CANDLER FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $860,843 to it, the largest being THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($179,555). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANDLER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $860,843 in grants to CANDLER FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANDLER FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $179,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANDLER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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