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DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC

DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,100 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($23,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$48M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$51M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Deer River Healthcare Center Inc does

Mission

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Deer river healthcare center, inc., dba essentia health deer river, is created and organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. More specifically, essentia health deer river shall own, maintain, operate and conduct health care and related activities and facilities for the promotion of health within its community, including charitable care to persons unable to pay.essentia health deer river has a critical access hospital with 20 licensed beds and multi-specialty clinic serving itasca and cass counties. The hospital is a level iv trauma center and offers emergency care 24 hours a day. Essentia health deer river offers inpatient and outpatient services including imaging/radiology, lab, surgery, and rehabilitation.essentia health deer river has a skilled nursing facility connected to the hospital that provides 24 hour skilled nursing and personal care. Residents have access to physical, occupational, and speech therapies. In addition, essentia health deer river's senior living apartments provide a full spectrum of senior living opportunities.essentia health deer river employs approximately 140 full time equivalents. The hospital provided…

    $35,597,487 spent$46,356,674 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,597,487.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33M) Expenses 100 ($31M) Net assets 100 ($22M)2018 Revenue 105 ($35M) Expenses 109 ($34M) Net assets 106 ($23M)2019 Revenue 116 ($38M) Expenses 113 ($35M) Net assets 120 ($26M)2020 Revenue 116 ($38M) Expenses 119 ($37M) Net assets 123 ($27M)2021 Revenue 131 ($43M) Expenses 124 ($38M) Net assets 153 ($33M)2022 Revenue 144 ($48M) Expenses 134 ($41M) Net assets 164 ($35M)2023 Revenue 132 ($44M) Expenses 134 ($41M) Net assets 177 ($38M)2024 Revenue 142 ($47M) Expenses 135 ($42M) Net assets 208 ($45M)2025 Revenue 144 ($48M) Expenses 142 ($44M) Net assets 235 ($51M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (142)Net assets (235)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 2019 to 2020, from $32M to $42M (+31%).

$29M
$29M
$32M
$42M
$46M
$45M
$46M
$54M
$58M
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’17
$1.0M
’18
$3.4M
’19
$1.6M
’20
$4.9M
’21
$6.4M
’22
$2.2M
’23
$5.2M
’24
$3.6M
’25
2.8
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.

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Listed192019191818181932
Joined·+6+2+2+5+5+1+2+17
No longer listed·53265114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $98k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest College of St Scholastica Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER 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.

Where its funders are

DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 27 related entities

  • Brainerd Medical Center Inc · exempt
  • Bridges Medical Center · exempt
  • Essentia Health · exempt
  • Essentia Health Aco Inc · exempt
  • Essentia Health Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC?
DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,100 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($23,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,100 in grants to DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC.
Who is the largest funder of DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC?
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $23,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEER RIVER HEALTHCARE CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 1 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