Maine · Nonprofit
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,777,889 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,030,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3B
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $261M
What Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen does
Mission
Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our mission is to care for patients, families, communities, and one another.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide healthcare services regardless of ability to pay as well as education, research and promotion of health. Provided other uncompensated care (at cost) of $10,986,157.Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) has served communities throughout our region for 133 years. Under community direction, it has grown from a five-bed general hospital into a comprehensive, 411 bed tertiary medical center with primary and secondary care components. EMMC is a nonprofit hospital, serving all who need care, regardless of ability to pay.EMMC also provides outreach clinics to many local hospitals in the region, allowing easier access to patients and supporting the role of those hospitals in their communities. EMMC provides access to medical data to hospitals across the State through its PACS system, helping to improve the quality of care patients receive. Additional information can be found at EMMC's website: https://northernlighthealth.org/Eastern-Maine-Medical-Center.Additional StatisticsTotal admissions 25,232Cardiac Catheterization Procedures 6,898Cardiac Surgery Cases 451Emergency Room Visits 36,954Medical Imaging Procedures 219,806Surgery Cases 15,681Live Births 1,643Family…
$999,999,999 spentof which $3,400 as grants$999,999,999 earned by the program86% of program spendingMedicare shortfalls-$97,850,910 (at cost) 87,845 persons served.Charity care provided-$931,843 (at cost) 1,196 persons served.Medicaid shortfalls-$42,893,631 (at cost) 101,729 persons served.
$159,145,038 spent$220,769,703 earned by the program14% 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…
When every mile mattersFor babies born too soon or with critical health needs, every moment matters. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center now has a new modern ambulance created just for babies in need of critical care. Funded entirely by donations from the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary, the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast, and compassionate community members, the new ambulance gives Maines smallest patients their strongest possible start in life.As the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) north of Portland, Eastern Maine Medical Center cares for more than 450 newborns each year, including about 150 who begin their fight for life in other hospitals. Our Neonatal Transport Team is made up of highly trained nurses who stand ready day and night to bring these babies safely to our NICU.Every time we transport a newborn, we know were carrying someones whole world, says Ken Roy, RN, a member of the Neonatal Transport Team. This ambulance gives us everything we need to provide the best care possible and helps us give families hope when they need it most. Parents are often…
From hospital to horsebackHealing through horsesAt Northern Light Mercy Hospital, compassion often extends well beyond the walls of the workplace. For Donna Lariviere, an occupational therapist, that commitment continues at a local horseback riding center, where she spends countless hours supporting therapeutic riding and hippotherapy programs. This specialized therapy provided by trained clinicians, including occupational therapists, uses the horses natural movement as part of treatment. She helps with lessons, barn operations, and daily horse care, serving riders who range in age from just 15 months to adults in their nineties. Each rider enters the arena with their own goals, challenges, and hopes, and Lariviere meets them where they are.Therapeutic riding gives disabled riders physical support by helping them get stronger, but it also gives them emotional support because it gives them confidence by doing something different, Lariviere addsBeyond physical gains, therapeutic riding offers powerful emotional and psychological benefits. Riders often experience increased confidence, improved emotional regulation, reduced stress, and meaningful social connection, whether through…
Safe 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 standards in infant safe sleep and ensuring that every newborn receives the safest start possible.This achievement reflects the dedication and compassion of our teams across Northern Light Health, says Natalia Hall, MBA, associate vice president, Northern Light Womens Health. Our caregivers have worked diligently to meet these gold-level standards, because every baby deserves a safe and healthy beginning.Congratulations to our safe sleep certified hospitals, delivering on our promise of comprehensive and compassionate care for expectant mothers, newborns, and families throughout Maine every day. Northern Light AR Gould Hospital Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital Northern Light Mayo Hospital Northern Light Mercy HospitalOn the road or in the hospital,these new devices never skip a beatEvery…
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,159,145,037.
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 2019 to 2020, from $899M to $1.0B (+12%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Heather Furth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $575k → $313k.
5 of 35 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: $37M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern Light Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen raised.
From the IRS filings of Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
71% 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 Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 59% · 2019 18% · 2020 49% · 2021 32% · 2022 20% · 2023 26% — 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
52% of Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M 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.
Against its field
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen is better cushioned than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 37 related entities
- M Drug LLC · disregarded
- Ltc LLC · disregarded
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Real Estate · exempt
- Rosscare · exempt
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems EMHS · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen?
- Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,777,889 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,030,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,777,889 in grants to Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,030,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen 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 35 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