Maine · Nonprofit
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,122 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND TELEHEALTH CONSORTIUM ($112,622). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $473M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $37M
What Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health does
Mission
EMHS d/b/a Northern Light Health, a supporting organization for healthcare affiliates, maintains and improves the health and well-being of the people of Maine through a well-organized network of local health care providers who together offer high quality, cost-effective services to their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Carried on supporting functions essential to Eastern Maine Medical Center, A.R. Gould Hospital, Inland Hospital, Acadia Hospital, Sebasticook Valley Hospital, CA Dean Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Maine Coast Hospital, Blue Hill Hospital, and Mayo Hospital. EMHS d/b/a Northern Light Health (NLH) performed standardization of practices, strategic planning, and capital allocation functions. NLH board established and oversees the charity care policy of the 10 hospitals which is applied uniformly to all of the hospitals. NLH hospitals provided cumulative charity care of $10,300,762 (at cost) and other uncompensated care of $30,670,685 (at cost) for a total uncompensated care of $40,971,447. The NLH hospitals had a Medicare shortfall of $151,080,805 and a Medicaid shortfall of $68,118,402.
$500,120,226 spentof which $1,562,501 as grants$454,864,532 earned by the program100% of program spendingPlease see the following excerpt from the Northern Light Health Annual Report 2025 to the Community for details of community benefit projects at NLH members:Guiding the wayEvery day, our Northern Light Health team demonstrates extraordinary commitment to our mission and to the patients, families, and communities who rely on us. Their dedication serves as a constant reminder of the strength that only comes from working together with purpose.This annual report tells some of the stories that reflect our determination to care for the people of Maine. From our smallest health centers to our largest hospitals, Northern Light Health is united in our belief that every person in our state deserves high-quality, compassionate care as close to home as possible.We are proud of our progress, inspired by the work ahead, and committed to leading Northern Light Health toward a future filled with promise. We are committed to serving you for generations to come.Thank you for your trust and support.R. Guy Hudson, MDPresident & CEONorthern Light HealthJohn RyanBoard ChairNorthern Light HealthTraveling HomeTheres no place like Hancock CountyAfter 24 years on the road as a travel nurse, Karen…
Care that meets you where you areLocated just a few blocks off the main road in Sangerville, the Northern Light Health Center serves as a vital connection point between Northern Light Mayo Hospital and Northern Light CA Dean Hospital. The facility offers greater access to services than many rural communities could imagine.A 30-minute drive from Greenville and just a 12-minute drive from Dover-Foxcroft, the Sangerville health center is a hub for care, accessible to patients in Piscataquis and parts of Penobscot and Somerset Counties. The facility offers an unique breadth of services for a rural location, including urology, womens health, prenatal care, newborn and pediatric care, primary care, diabetes management, physical and occupational therapy, ultrasound and x-ray, lab draws, walk-in care, and behavioral health support, all under one roof.Many practitioners at Sangerville split their time between the health center, Mayo, and CA Dean Hospital locations. While Ahmed Elnoor, MD, a urologist and Kristin Hartt, MD, a family practitioner focusing on womens health see patients in Sangerville, Dr. Elnoor performs surgery and Dr. Hartt delivers babies at Mayo Hospital. Galen Durose,…
Community BenefitFor the year ended September 30, 2025Total Community Investment by CategoryCommunity Health Improvement Services $2,366,195 Health Professions Education $1,822,491Research $1,517,647 Cash and In-Kind Contributions $131,121 Community Building Activities $347,504 Community Benefit Operations $1,901,310Traditional Charity Care $10,300,762 Unpaid Cost of Public Programs: Medicaid $68,118,402 Medicare $151,080,806Total Systemwide $237,586,238Northern Light Health Member Community Benefit Acadia Hospital $12,992,305AR Gould Hospital $19,401,076Blue Hill Hospital $433,598CA Dean Hospital $416,063Eastern Maine Medical Center $143,946,350Home Care & Hospice $1,070,707Home Office $442,685Inland Hospital $11,620,066Maine Coast Hospital $9,281,055Mayo Hospital $103,478Mercy Hospital $36,320,867Sebasticook Valley Hospital $1,557,988Safe beginningsNorthern Light Health earns gold for infant sleep safetyNorthern Light Health is proud to share that all of our hospitals with birthing programs have earned Gold Safe Sleep Hospital certification from the Cribs for Kid National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program. This recognition honors our commitment to following the highest…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $500,120,226.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $929M to $804M (−13%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 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. 9 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.
Board chair
John Ryan Esq
Brd Memb/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $113k → $35k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern Light Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health raised.
From the IRS filings of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health’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
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Agriculture$191k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Northern Light Wellbeing LLC · disregarded
- Beacon Health LLC · disregarded
- Beacon Rural Health LLC · disregarded
- Eastern Maine Medical Center EMMC · exempt
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Real Estate · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health?
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,122 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND TELEHEALTH CONSORTIUM ($112,622). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $252,122 in grants to Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health?
- NEW ENGLAND TELEHEALTH CONSORTIUM is the largest funder on record, with $112,622 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Northern Light Health find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 5 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