Tennessee · Nonprofit
Methodist Medical Center Foundation
Methodist Medical Center Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Methodist Medical Center Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation is charged with raising, managing and distributing charitable gift support for Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge (MMC) in order to perpetuate and advance the highest quality of health care services at MMC. Donations to the Foundation support health care programs, services, education and equipment at MMC not otherwise funded or reimbursable by public or private insurance. The Foundation's mission is to assist MMC with extending the gift of life to all those in need, regardless of their ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Hospitality Houses of Methodist Medical Center provide temporary lodging for patients and families who must travel long distances for treatment at Methodist Medical Center or Thompson Cancer Survival Center at MMC. The three homes offer 12 fully furnished apartments; shared kitchen, dining, laundry and family rooms; stocked pantries; transportation assistance as needed; and free parking. The program is supported entirely by charitable contributions.Guests of the Hospitality Houses stay as long as they need, free of charge. Since the first house opened in 1997, thousands of guests have received lodging. In 2024, the houses served 118 guests and provided 4,564 nights of stay for patients and families receiving cancer treatment, ICU/CCU care, and wound care at MMC. Guests traveled from 16 different Tennessee counties, as well as from Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. Based on standard local hotel rates, the value of the free lodging received by these guests was $547,680.
$104,530 spentof which $104,530 as grants77% of program spendingMMC Foundation provides funding for patients and employees in times of crisis through the Jack Sills MMC Chaplain's Fund. In 2024, assistance was provided to 28 patients and 50 employees to assist with housing, transportation, funeral, food, utilities and medical expenses so that they could push through unexpected crisis situations and resume their productive lives.
$24,947 spentof which $24,947 as grants18% of program spendingMMC Foundation funded continuing education equipment, clinical training and advanced certifications at Methodist Medical Center, including a training materials for nursing education, and advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) training for pharmacists.
$3,788 spentof which $3,788 as grants3% of program spendingAdditionally, the foundation distributed a gift-in-kind of e-readers to support medical students in the MMC Family Residency program, and funds to support the Imagination Library program for children born in the MMC family birthing unit.
$2,053 spentof which $2,053 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,318.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+32%).
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.
94% of Methodist Medical Center Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Shawn Smith
Director/Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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: $66k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Methodist Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money Methodist Medical Center Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Methodist Medical Center Foundation’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
Methodist Medical Center Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Methodist Medical Center Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
73% of Methodist Medical Center Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Methodist Medical Center Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Methodist Medical Center Foundation
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Methodist Medical Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Methodist Medical Center Foundation: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Methodist Medical Center Foundation?
- Methodist Medical Center Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Methodist Medical Center Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $40,900 in grants to Methodist Medical Center Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Methodist Medical Center Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Methodist Medical Center Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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