Skip to content

North Carolina · Nonprofit

HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC

HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,500 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$134M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$594k
Net assets
$153M
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Inc does

Mission

To consistenly deliver exceptional quality and service by demonstrating the values of service, teamwork, accountability, respect, and safe care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, hugh chatham health continued their legacy of providing healthcare to all within the community. The organization's vision, "to be the best community health system in the nation with service as our guiding principle," declares that every member of the team provides the highest level of care for every patient, at every location. Hugh chatham makes a difference every day for local citizens and employers. The nonprofit healthcare system has recently received many prestigious awards that accentuate its commitment to excellence. Continued on schedule o

    $136,660,090 spentof which $76,850 as grants$124,389,896 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $136,660,090.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($121M) Expenses 100 ($108M) Net assets 100 ($148M)2018 Revenue 102 ($124M) Expenses 107 ($115M) Net assets 108 ($160M)2019 Revenue 107 ($130M) Expenses 113 ($121M) Net assets 107 ($159M)2020 Revenue 115 ($139M) Expenses 118 ($127M) Net assets 116 ($172M)2021 Revenue 130 ($158M) Expenses 130 ($140M) Net assets 139 ($206M)2022 Revenue 128 ($155M) Expenses 135 ($146M) Net assets 121 ($179M)2023 Revenue 131 ($158M) Expenses 148 ($160M) Net assets 118 ($174M)2024 Revenue 115 ($139M) Expenses 159 ($171M) Net assets 110 ($164M)2025 Revenue 110 ($134M) Expenses 138 ($148M) Net assets 103 ($153M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (110)Expenses (138)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

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 $222M to $169M (−24%).

$234M
$241M
$239M
$260M
$282M
$256M
$246M
$222M
$169M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14M
’17
$8.9M
’18
$8.5M
’19
$13M
’20
$18M
’21
$9.3M
’22
−$1.2M
’23
−$32M
’24
−$15M
’25
0.4
months of
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

Paul Hammes

CEO

Board chair

Cynthia Gonzalez

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed242319232421242425
Joined·+16+2+10+7+5+10+5+6
No longer listed·176668755
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $81k → $500k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC raised.

From the IRS filings of HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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

HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 16 related entities

  • Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Auxiliary · exempt
  • Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center · exempt
  • North Carolina Baptist Hospital · exempt
  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC?
HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,500 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $593,500 in grants to HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC?
THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 6 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