Michigan · Nonprofit
SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL
SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,596 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($442,094). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $475k
- Net assets
- $135M
What Sparrow Eaton Hospital does
Mission
To advance health to serve michigan and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Umh-sparrow eaton's inpatient services are typical of a small rural facility. Operating 25 beds, umh-sparrow eaton provides nursing and physician services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For the year ended june 30, 2025, there were 1,000 discharges with 3,111 inpatient days of care. Nursing staff are on site 100% of the time, and hospitalist coverage is available on an on-call basis 100% of the time when not on site. Umh-sparrow eaton accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare with reimbursement at or below cost. Additionally, the hospital's charity care policy covers all inpatient services, in turn providing free care to those in the community who qualify.
$3,793,476 spent$9,072,723 earned by the program6% of program spendingUmh-sparrow eaton's outpatient services are typical of a small rural facility. The emergency department provides nursing and physician services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with physicians on site 100% of the time. Screening exams are provided to everyone who presents for services prior to any financial information being obtained or charges discussed with patients in accordance with emergency medical treatment and active labor act (emtala). Laboratory, radiology, respiratory services, surgery, as well as infusion/oncology are typical of other outpatient services provided. Umh- sparrow eaton accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare with reimbursement at or below costs. Additionally, umh-sparrow eaton's charity care policy covers services in the outpatient setting, in turn providing free care to those in the community who qualify. For the year ended june 30, 2025, umh-sparrow eaton recorded 18,525 emergency room visits; 283,857 lab tests; 44,776 radiology procedures; 16,976 respiratory/cardiology procedures; 1,268 surgeries/992 scopes; and 5,449 ambulance runs.
$45,869,719 spent$74,693,956 earned by the program72% of program spendingUmh-sparrow eaton operates physician practice offices, offering primary care as well as some specialty care within areas such as ob/gyn, general surgery, orthopedics, cardiology, and urology. Umh-sparrow eaton accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare, with reimbursement rates at or below cost. For the year ended june 30, 2025, there were 81,895 visits in our physician offices.
$14,435,090 spent$12,071,348 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,098,285.
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 2024 to 2025, from $133M to $166M (+24%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of SPARROW EATON 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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John Hendrickson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eaton Community Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL’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
SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
93% 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 SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 99% — 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
93% of SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66 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
SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin 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 SPARROW EATON 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Regents of the Univ of Michigan · exempt
- West Michigan Radiation Oncology · exempt
- Metropolitan Hospital (Umh West) · exempt
- Um Health · exempt
- Metropolitan Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL?
- SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,596 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($442,094). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $474,596 in grants to SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL?
- MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $442,094 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 4 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