Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,337 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL OF CENTRAL PA INC ($1,753,326). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8B
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $823M
What Lancaster General Hospital does
Mission
To advance the health and well-being of the communities we serve. Refer to form 990, schedule h for additional disclosure regarding Lancaster General Hospital's mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pharmacy
$407,956,575 spent$428,042,938 earned by the program29% of program spendingSurgical services
$234,697,113 spent$306,290,549 earned by the program17% of program spendingNursing services
$203,887,225 spent$238,008,520 earned by the program15% of program spendingDescription of other program services all other program services, including but not limited to; laboratory, radiology, emergency medicine, education and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Lgh operates an emergency department (er) that is open to all persons regardless of ability to pay. The emergency department had a total of 104,841 visits during fiscal year 2025. Total patient days for the fiscal year were 187,048. Medicare and medicaid patients contributed 16,128 and 5,093, respectively, towards the 31,711 total inpatient discharges during the fiscal year. --------------------------- exempt purpose achievements Lancaster General Hospital will identify community health needs; help reach community consensus on health care priorities; develop programs (where possible together with other community organizations) to address these needs; develop and maintain metrics to measure our progress; and report out activity to the board of trustees and the community at large. Financial means should not prevent anyone from accessing healthcare services. To that end, Lancaster General Hospital has established financial assistance programs for those with little or no insurance, or limited…
$541,926,421 spentof which $4,754,643 as grants$839,355,542 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,388,467,334.
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 2019 to 2020, from $957M to $1.2B (+20%).
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 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
John J Herman
CEO LG Health
Board chair
Neal Salerno
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $439k → $413k.
3 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $1.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Lancaster County). These are real filings, and they are not money LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 54%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 70% · 2019 70% · 2020 27% · 2021 51% · 2022 43% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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
46% of LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
84% of LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $576k 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
LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.2M on record — $15.1M federal, $59k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$9.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.5M
- Department of Justice$687k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$59k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$80
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 LANCASTER GENERAL 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 95 related entities
- Novastream LLC · disregarded
- The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Inst · exempt
- Carl V S Patterson Irr · exempt
- Chester County Hospital & Health System · exempt
- Clinical Care Associates of Uphs · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL?
- LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,337 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL OF CENTRAL PA INC ($1,753,326). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,377,337 in grants to LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL?
- FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL OF CENTRAL PA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,753,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing