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KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC

KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3B
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$645M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Kennestone Hospital Inc does

Mission

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. Mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. Values: we serve with compassion. We pursue excellence. We honor every voice. Form 990, part iii, line 4a program service accomplishments about wellstar at wellstar, people are at the center of everything we do and every decision we make. As a not-for-profit organization, we have made a generational commitment to transform healthcare for all. We work to ensure every person has access to personalized care that helps them spend more time being a person, rather than a patient. That's what we mean when we say we're more than healthcare-we're peoplecare. Wellstar is nationally recognized for our inclusive culture, exceptional doctors and team members, and personal, high-quality care. We thoughtfully reinvest in prevention, wellness programs and charity care, and provide access to compassionate, world-class care through our expansive system of 11 hospitals, 329 medical office locations, 11 cancer centers, 91 rehabilitation centers, 35 imaging centers, 20 urgent care locations, five health parks, three hospice facilities and two retirement villages.…

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,581,234,290 spentof which $125,000 as grants$2,152,314,604 earned by the program
    112% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,412,594,691. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

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 ($1.1B) Expenses 100 ($867M) Net assets 100 ($413M)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.2B) Expenses 105 ($910M) Net assets 86 ($355M)2019 Revenue 119 ($1.3B) Expenses 115 ($994M) Net assets 121 ($500M)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.3B) Expenses 117 ($1.0B) Net assets 109 ($452M)2021 Revenue 139 ($1.5B) Expenses 130 ($1.1B) Net assets 113 ($466M)2022 Revenue 146 ($1.6B) Expenses 142 ($1.2B) Net assets 81 ($336M)2023 Revenue 164 ($1.8B) Expenses 159 ($1.4B) Net assets 87 ($358M)2024 Revenue 187 ($2.1B) Expenses 177 ($1.5B) Net assets 96 ($397M)2025 Revenue 207 ($2.3B) Expenses 217 ($1.9B) Net assets 156 ($645M)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (217)Net assets (156)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 $1.2B to $1.5B (+20%).

$651M
$786M
$926M
$1.0B
$1.0B
$1.0B
$1.1B
$1.2B
$1.5B
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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 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$248M
’17
$283M
’18
$333M
’19
$318M
’20
$425M
’21
$396M
’22
$454M
’23
$544M
’24
$425M
’25
0.0
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

Candice Saunders

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1029610711011611410610092
Joined·+9+22+13+17+19+14+10+11
No longer listed·1511101121221619
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.

Funder
'21
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of KENNESTONE 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.

Where its funders are

KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.

TX

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

’21
’22
Georgia 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

KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

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

Government funding KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.

State$7k
20
21
23
24
25
Top programs
  • (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$7k

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 KENNESTONE 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
59%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Part of a family of 26 related entities

  • Cobb Hospital Inc · exempt
  • Douglas Hospital Inc · exempt
  • Paulding Medical Center Inc · exempt
  • Wellstar Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Wellstar Health System Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC?
KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC?
American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENNESTONE HOSPITAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 1 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