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Chester River Health Foundation Inc

Chester River Health Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,840 to it, the largest being CONSTANCE AND CARL FERRIS CHARITABLE ($160,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$614k
Net assets
$9.5M
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Chester River Health Foundation Inc does

Mission

Chester river health foundation's (crhf) mission is to raise funds that steward and enhance healthcare excellence for the people who live in or visit the communities served by chester river hospital center, inc. (dba um shore medical center at chestertown) thus supporting the regional mission of "creating healthier communities together."

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Chester river health foundation, inc. Supports chester river hospital center, inc. In providing compassionate, high-quality and cost-effective health care for the people in our community.

    $422,080 spentof which $294,039 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $422,080.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($766k) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 137 ($1.0M) Net assets 115 ($7.6M)2019 Revenue 27 ($455k) Expenses 171 ($1.3M) Net assets 101 ($6.7M)2020 Revenue 31 ($517k) Expenses 58 ($445k) Net assets 103 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 51 ($847k) Expenses 72 ($551k) Net assets 119 ($7.8M)2022 Revenue 37 ($618k) Expenses 43 ($329k) Net assets 111 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 52 ($860k) Expenses 87 ($667k) Net assets 121 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 40 ($667k) Expenses 53 ($407k) Net assets 132 ($8.7M)2025 Revenue 65 ($1.1M) Expenses 61 ($466k) Net assets 144 ($9.5M)
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Revenue (65)Expenses (61)Net assets (144)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $6.7M to $8.0M (+20%).

$6.7M
$8.0M
$6.7M
$6.8M
$7.9M
$7.4M
$8.0M
$8.8M
$9.7M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$895k
’17
$266k
’18
−$859k
’19
$72k
’20
$296k
’21
$290k
’22
$193k
’23
$260k
’24
$611k
’25
81
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

Elizabeth S Woolever

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820242025
Listed24221510
Joined·+2·+0
No longer listed·4·5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $93k → $83k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Chester River Health 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

Chester River Health Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

36% 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 Chester River Health Foundation Inc.

26%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 56% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 60% — 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

60% of Chester River Health Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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

58% of Chester River Health Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

ME
OH
NJ
MD
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like Chester River Health 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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 57 related entities

  • Baltimore Washington Emergency Phys Inc · exempt
  • Baltimore Washington Healthcare Services · exempt
  • Baltimore Washington Medical Center Inc · exempt
  • Um Baltimore Washington Medical System · exempt
  • North Arundel Development Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chester River Health Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc?
Chester River Health Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,840 to it, the largest being CONSTANCE AND CARL FERRIS CHARITABLE ($160,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chester River Health Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $613,840 in grants to Chester River Health Foundation Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chester River Health Foundation Inc?
CONSTANCE AND CARL FERRIS CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chester River Health Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 14 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