Minnesota · Nonprofit
ESSENTIA HEALTH
ESSENTIA HEALTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,104,646 to it, the largest being MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($5,797,075). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $401M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $558M
What Essentia Health does
Mission
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Essentia Health is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and religious purposes exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of its supported organizations as listed on schedule a of form 990, all of which are organizations described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.Essentia Health is the parent organization of an integrated health system that includes all entities that are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by Essentia Health (collectively, the "system"). The system serves patients in minnesota, north dakota, and wisconsin. Headquartered in duluth, minnesota, the system combines the strengths and talents of nearly 16,000 employees, including more than 2,300 physicians and advanced practitioners, who serve our patients and communities through the mission of being called to make a healthy difference in people's lives. The system, which includes many catholic facilities, is guided by the values of quality, hospitality, respect, joy, justice, stewardship, and teamwork. The system delivers on its mission by having patient-centered focus at 14 hospitals,…
$186,560,759 spentof which $622 as grants$364,085,651 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $186,560,759.
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 2023 to 2024, from $723M to $870M (+20%).
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 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ESSENTIA HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 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
David Herman Md
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $978k → $2.3M.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $97M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Critical Access Group). These are real filings, and they are not money ESSENTIA HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of ESSENTIA 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
ESSENTIA HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 ESSENTIA HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 72% · 2019 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of ESSENTIA HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
62% of ESSENTIA HEALTH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $494k 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
ESSENTIA 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
Government funding ESSENTIA HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Justice$251k
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 ESSENTIA 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 27 related entities
- Brainerd Medical Center Inc · exempt
- Bridges Medical Center · exempt
- Deer River Healthcare Center Inc · exempt
- Essentia Health Aco Inc · exempt
- Essentia Health Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSENTIA 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 ESSENTIA HEALTH?
- ESSENTIA HEALTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,104,646 to it, the largest being MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($5,797,075). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSENTIA HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $10,104,646 in grants to ESSENTIA HEALTH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSENTIA HEALTH?
- MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES is the largest funder on record, with $5,797,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSENTIA HEALTH 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 8 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