Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EMERSON HOSPITAL
EMERSON HOSPITAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,824,633 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,621,423). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $412M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $130M
What Emerson Hospital does
Mission
The mission of Emerson Hospital is to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective care to our patients and to maintain a professional and respectful environment for all members of the Emerson Hospital community. We define high quality as meeting or exceeding the requirements of our customers: patients, physicians, employees, the community and payers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emerson Hospital is an 179-bed acute care non-profit community hospital that provides services to inpatients. The facility includes the following units: three medical/surgical units, a locked behavioral health unit, a locked maternity/obstetrics unit, a critical care unit, a pediatrics unit and a special care nursery. Emerson Hospital served 8,398 inpatients and 2,565 observation patients for a total of 41,279 patient days.
$99,337,022 spent$103,684,072 earned by the program27% of program spendingEmerson Hospital is an acute care non-profit community hospital that provides a variety of services on an outpatient basis. Emerson performed 14,519 procedures on outpatients during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025 in addition, the hospital also had 38,519 emergency department visits and 101,532 rehabilitation service visits.
$268,013,918 spent$296,324,970 earned by the program72% of program spendingEmerson Hospital provides homecare services. Home care is available 24 hours per day and 7 days per week to homebound patients of all ages. Primary homecare services include professional nurses who deliver medical care as ordered by physicians, rehabilitation professionals who work with patients to restore function and independence and home health aides who assist with personal care tasks. For the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025 Emerson Hospital saw 1,454 new homecare patients and performed 16,245 homecare visits.
$2,469,384 spent$2,577,446 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $369,820,324.
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 $233M to $266M (+14%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of EMERSON HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Christine C Schuster
President and CEO
Board chair
Gloria L Clough
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $216k → $463k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Emerson Health Care Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EMERSON HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of EMERSON HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
EMERSON HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 EMERSON HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 61% · 2019 59% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 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
44% of EMERSON HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
61% of EMERSON HOSPITAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
EMERSON HOSPITAL is better cushioned than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding EMERSON HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78.3M on record.
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$74.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3.7M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$55k
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 EMERSON HOSPITAL
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 Massachusetts
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 12 related entities
- Emerson Health System · exempt
- Emerson Health Care Foundation · exempt
- Emerson Practice Associates · exempt
- Emerson Practice Associates II · exempt
- Radiation Oncology Center Management Company LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMERSON HOSPITAL?
- EMERSON HOSPITAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,824,633 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,621,423). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMERSON HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,824,633 in grants to EMERSON HOSPITAL, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERSON HOSPITAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,621,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERSON HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing