Tennessee · Nonprofit
ERLANGER HEALTH
ERLANGER HEALTH (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($102,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6B
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $558M
What Erlanger Health does
Mission
We compassionately care for people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
On november 30, 2024, Erlanger Health assumed the assets and liabilities of the erlanger foundation - previously the 501(c)(3) fundraising arm of erlanger. As a department of erlanger, the trade name ("erlanger foundation") was maintained by erlanger. Additionally, the previous board of directors of erlanger foundation was reconstituted from a fiduciary board to a non-fiduciary committee of the Erlanger Health board under the title of the "erlanger foundation advancement council".
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Erlanger Health is a tennessee non-profit, public benefit corporation exempt from federal income taxes as an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. Erlanger Health and its affiliates own and operate hospitals and other health care facilities known as Erlanger Health (the "health system or "erlanger") located primarily in and near the city of chattanooga, tennessee (the "hospital facilities"). Prior to july 1, 2023, the hospital facilities were owned and operated by the chattanooga-hamilton county hospital authority. On july 1, 2023, the hospital authority transferred the hospital facilities to the erlanger pursuant to a mission agreement dated august 29, 2022 among the hospital authority, erlanger and hamilton county, tennessee. Founded in 1889 by french nobleman, baron frederic emile d'erlanger, the hospital opened in 1899 with 72 beds. Soon after opening, erlanger formed one of the state's first nursing schools and developed a partnership with chattanooga medical college, now the university of tennessee at chattanooga.erlanger continues its commitment to excellence as an academic medical center and passion for advancing…
$1,188,784,914 spentof which $31,745 as grants$1,587,595,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,188,784,914.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $997M to $1.3B (+31%).
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: 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ERLANGER HEALTH’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. 0 of the last 2 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
Jim Coleman
President & CEO
Board chair
Sheila Boyington
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $570k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Erlanger Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ERLANGER HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of ERLANGER 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
ERLANGER HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 ERLANGER HEALTH.
“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
59% of ERLANGER HEALTH'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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.
Against its field
ERLANGER HEALTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 ERLANGER 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Erlanger Foundation · exempt
- Murphy Medical Center Inc · exempt
- Cyberknife of Chattanooga LLC · partnership
- En LLC · partnership
- Continucare Healthservices Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ERLANGER HEALTH: 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 ERLANGER HEALTH?
- ERLANGER HEALTH (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($102,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERLANGER HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $172,250 in grants to ERLANGER HEALTH.
- Who is the largest funder of ERLANGER HEALTH?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERLANGER HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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