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MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES

MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,553 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SURGERY OF TRAUMA ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$699M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$56k
Net assets
$543M
0/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Medical Center of the Rockies does

Mission

We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Medical Center of the Rockies (mcr) provides tertiary, acute, inpatient, outpatient, as well as emergency care. Mcr services communities in northern colorado, southwestern nebraska, and southeastern wyoming. During fiscal year 2025 mcr recorded 52,659 patient days; 11,556 inpatient admissions; 3,580 observation patients admissions; 268,319 outpatient visits; 60,171 emergency visits; 1,501 births; 3,798 inpatient surgeries; 6,720 outpatient surgeries.

    $522,832,839 spentof which $60,823,434 as grants$675,455,721 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $522,832,839.

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 ($487M) Expenses 100 ($409M) Net assets 100 ($189M)2018 Revenue 115 ($557M) Expenses 110 ($451M) Net assets 125 ($236M)2019 Revenue 125 ($611M) Expenses 119 ($485M) Net assets 144 ($273M)2020 Revenue 113 ($552M) Expenses 114 ($467M) Net assets 125 ($237M)2021 Revenue 131 ($640M) Expenses 119 ($485M) Net assets 176 ($333M)2022 Revenue 122 ($596M) Expenses 130 ($532M) Net assets 164 ($310M)2023 Revenue 124 ($604M) Expenses 141 ($578M) Net assets 192 ($363M)2024 Revenue 132 ($642M) Expenses 142 ($582M) Net assets 239 ($453M)2025 Revenue 144 ($699M) Expenses 153 ($624M) Net assets 287 ($543M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (153)Net assets (287)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 2023 to 2024, from $629M to $751M (+19%).

$451M
$516M
$537M
$564M
$645M
$579M
$629M
$751M
$832M
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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 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.

$78M
’17
$106M
’18
$125M
’19
$85M
’20
$154M
’21
$63M
’22
$26M
’23
$60M
’24
$75M
’25
0.1
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

Kevin Unger

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Jim Parke

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed222124262723272928
Joined·+5+6+5+3+0+8+6+2
No longer listed·63324443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Left out of every figure on this page: $282k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES raised.

From the IRS filings of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES’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

MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES.

45%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.

MN
IL
MA
TN

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

MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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

Government funding MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23 on record.

State$23
Top programs
  • OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$23

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 MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES

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 Colorado

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

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Poudre Valley Healthcare Inc · exempt
  • Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundation · exempt
  • Poudre Valley Medical Group · exempt
  • Innovation Enterprises · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES?
MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,553 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SURGERY OF TRAUMA ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $55,553 in grants to MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES.
Who is the largest funder of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES?
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SURGERY OF TRAUMA is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 5 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