Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,725 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION INC AGY - UMA XXXXXX7881 ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7B
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $2.2B
What Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc does
Mission
Gundersen lutheran medical center (glmc) a physician led, not-for-profit healthcare system, established in 1899, provides acute and tertiary care for 21 counties located throughout western wisconsin, northeastern iowa and southeastern minnesota. We serve as a regional referral center. Glmc is a teaching hospital with 325 licensed beds and a level ii trauma and emergency center. Our mission is to distinguish ourselves through excellence in patient care, education, research and improved health in the communities we serve. We will work as a team to demonstrate our values: integrity - perform with honesty, responsibility and transparency, excellence - achieve excellence in all aspects of delivering healthcare, respect - treat patients, families and coworkers with dignity, innovation - embrace change and new ideas, compassion - provide compassionate care to patients and families. Our current vision is to enhance the health and wellbeing of our communities while enriching every life we touch
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Glmc provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, clinical and diagnostic services in numerous medical specialties and subspecialties. Glmc is a teaching hospital with 325 licensed beds with specialty services including renal dialysis, cancer care, rehabilitation services, and cardiac services. In 2013, glmc opened a new inpatient behavioral health building, meeting a tremendous need in our region for additional beds and services. We are able to provide care locally for patients of all ages. The facility is the only place in the region offering inpatient care for adolescents and teenagers with behavioral health needs. Glmc has repeatedly been named one of the top 50 hospitals in the nation, placing us in the top one percent. Glmc voluntarily provides medically necessary patient care service that is discounted or free of charge to persons who have insufficient resources and/or who are uninsured. For the period of october 1, 2024 through september 30, 2025, glmc provided assistance to approximately 15,974 patients that resulted in glmc incurring roughly $36,835,797 in uncompensated cost associated with this program.
$1,564,497,269 spentof which $49,309,265 as grants$1,728,668,868 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,564,497,269.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.4B to $1.7B (+15%).
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 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC’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
Scott Rathgaber Md
Board of trustees, chairman, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $50k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $15M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC’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
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
32% 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 GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record — $35k federal, $4k state.
- Department of the Interior$30k
- Department of Defense$5k
- Educational Services$4k
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 GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 33 related entities
- Gundersen Health Accountable Care Organization LLC · disregarded
- Bellin Gundersen Health System Inc · exempt
- Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc · exempt
- Gundersen Clinic Ltd · exempt
- Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC: 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 GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC?
- GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,725 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION INC AGY - UMA XXXXXX7881 ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $73,725 in grants to GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC?
- THE PMG FOUNDATION INC AGY - UMA XXXXXX7881 is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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