Maine · Nonprofit
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital (Maine) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,583 to it, the largest being MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($3,761,982). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $372M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $90M
What Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital does
Mission
Mercy Hospital d/b/a Northern Light Mercy Hospital carries out the healing work of Christ by providing clinically excellent, compassionate healthcare for all, with special concern for the poor and disadvantaged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide healthcare services regardless of ability to pay as well as education, research and promotion of health. Provided other uncompensated care (at cost) of $4,282,803.
$280,380,205 spent$361,648,467 earned by the program89% of program spendingMedicare shortfalls (at cost) 47,636 persons served
$24,934,300 spent8% of program spendingMedicaid shortfalls (at cost) 42,319 persons served
$8,338,814 spent3% of program spendingCharity care provided (at cost): 541 persons served
$374,623 spent0% of program spendingPlease see the following excerpt from the Northern Light Health Annual Report 2025 to the Community for details of community benefit projects at NLH members:Guiding the wayEvery day, our Northern Light Health team demonstrates extraordinary commitment to our mission and to the patients, families, and communities who rely on us. Their dedication serves as a constant reminder of the strength that only comes from working together with purpose.This annual report tells some of the stories that reflect our determination to care for the people of Maine. From our smallest health centers to our largest hospitals, Northern Light Health is united in our belief that every person in our state deserves high-quality, compassionate care as close to home as possible.We are proud of our progress, inspired by the work ahead, and committed to leading Northern Light Health toward a future filled with promise. We are committed to serving you for generations to come.Thank you for your trust and support.R. Guy Hudson, MDPresident & CEONorthern Light HealthJohn RyanBoard ChairNorthern Light HealthTraveling HomeTheres no place like Hancock CountyAfter 24 years on the road as a travel nurse, Karen…
Care that meets you where you areLocated just a few blocks off the main road in Sangerville, the Northern Light Health Center serves as a vital connection point between Northern Light Mayo Hospital and Northern Light CA Dean Hospital. The facility offers greater access to services than many rural communities could imagine.A 30-minute drive from Greenville and just a 12-minute drive from Dover-Foxcroft, the Sangerville health center is a hub for care, accessible to patients in Piscataquis and parts of Penobscot and Somerset Counties. The facility offers an unique breadth of services for a rural location, including urology, womens health, prenatal care, newborn and pediatric care, primary care, diabetes management, physical and occupational therapy, ultrasound and x-ray, lab draws, walk-in care, and behavioral health support, all under one roof.Many practitioners at Sangerville split their time between the health center, Mayo, and CA Dean Hospital locations. While Ahmed Elnoor, MD, a urologist and Kristin Hartt, MD, a family practitioner focusing on womens health see patients in Sangerville, Dr. Elnoor performs surgery and Dr. Hartt delivers babies at Mayo Hospital. Galen Durose,…
Community BenefitFor the year ended September 30, 2025Total Community Investment by CategoryCommunity Health Improvement Services $2,366,195Health Professions Education $1,822,491Research $1,517,647Cash and In-Kind Contributions $131,121Community Building Activities $347,504Community Benefit Operations $1,901,310Traditional Charity Care $10,300,762Unpaid Cost of Public Programs: Medicaid $68,118,402 Medicare $151,080,806Total Systemwide $237,586,238Northern Light Health Member Community Benefit Acadia Hospital $12,992,305AR Gould Hospital $19,401,076Blue Hill Hospital $433,598CA Dean Hospital $416,063Eastern Maine Medical Center $143,946,350Home Care & Hospice $1,070,707Home Office $442,685Inland Hospital $11,620,066Maine Coast Hospital $9,281,055Mayo Hospital $103,478Mercy Hospital $36,320,867Sebasticook Valley Hospital $1,557,988Safe beginningsNorthern Light Health earns gold for infant sleep safetyNorthern Light Health is proud to share that all of our hospitals with birthing programs have earned Gold Safe Sleep Hospital certification from the Cribs for Kid National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program. This recognition honors our commitment to following the highest…
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,027,942.
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 $155M to $211M (+36%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy 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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $57k → $1.2M.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $25M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern Light Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital raised.
From the IRS filings of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 95% · 2019 26% · 2020 54% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 45% — 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
48% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
72% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $2.0M federal, $37k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Labor$1.0M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$37k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$245
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 Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems EMHS · exempt
- Acadia Hospital Corp AHC · exempt
- Acadia Healthcare Inc · exempt
- Eastern Maine Medical Center · exempt
- Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital?
- Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital (Maine) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,583 to it, the largest being MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($3,761,982). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $9,838,583 in grants to Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital?
- MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,761,982 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 40 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