Missouri · Nonprofit
FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM
FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,531 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($287,701). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $853k
- Net assets
- $546M
What Freeman Health System does
Mission
The mission of freeman health services is to improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Freeman offers outpatient services including cancer care, radiation oncology, emergency medicine, women's services, gastroenterology, dialysis, wound care, neurology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, geriatric care, a pharmacy, walk-in clinics, home care, occupational medicine, outpatient surgery, rehabilitation therapies, heart and vascular services, radiology, laboratory services, and more. See schedule o for additional information.
$340,693,148 spentof which $3,244,390 as grants$347,761,617 earned by the program56% of program spendingFreeman provides inpatient services in joplin through two hospitals-freeman hospital west and freeman hospital east. In these two hospitals, patients rely on a variety of medical units for medical care. These include the general medical, general surgery, orthopaedic, neurosurgery, cardiovascular, cardiac/medical, oncology, critical care (intensive and transitional), nicu (neonatal icu), maternal, pediatric, psychiatric, geriatric psychiatric, and physical rehabilitation units. Freeman joplin inpatient services totaled 17,654 cases, of which, 4,743 or 26.9%, were medicaid cases. Additionally, 516 inpatient cases, or 2.9% of the total, fell into the self-pay (no insurance) category. See schedule o for additional information.
$227,153,871 spent$208,523,055 earned by the program37% of program spendingFreeman Health System provides physical and emotional care for patients and families through comprehensive services and technological advances. Freeman cancer institute accepts medicaid and medicare patients. Freeman cancer institute helps patients deal with the issues surrounding treatment and recovery. Freeman staff work with drug companies and other organizations to procure free cancer medications for patients with limited financial resources. See schedule o for additional information.
$38,139,770 spent$84,490,395 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $605,986,789.
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 $543M to $749M (+38%).
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% · 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM’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
Paula F Baker
President and CEO
Board chair
Lance Beshore Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $87k → $124k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM’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
FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
47% 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 FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 47% · 2019 52% · 2020 36% · 2021 23% · 2022 74% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
64% of FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Fhs Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Freeman Surgical Center of Pittsburg LLC · disregarded
- Freeman Neosho Hospital · exempt
- Ozark Center · exempt
- Cedar Hill Housing Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM?
- FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $852,531 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($287,701). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $852,531 in grants to FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM?
- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $287,701 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 17 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