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Norton Community Hospital

Norton Community Hospital (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,412 to it, the largest being Ballad Health Auxiliary ($24,412). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$44M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Norton Community Hospital does

Mission

Our mission is to honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Norton Community Hospital (NCH) is located in Norton, Virginia. Our 129-bed acute-care facility has served Southwest Virginia and Southeastern Kentucky since 1949. As the largest healthcare facility in the coalfield region, NCH provides a wide array of services through highly trained physicians and support staff. NCH is a Virginia nonprofit corporation.During FY20, MSHA purchased CHCFs 49% membership resulting in MSHA being the sole member. Additional hospitals located in Wise Co. are Mountain View Regional Hospital (MVRH) and Lonesome Pine Hospital (LPH) which are reported on Wellmont Health System (WHS)s 990. In February 2021, NCH merged with these two hospitals in order to optimize healthcare in Wise County. This will be the final separate return for NCH. Norton Community Physician Services will have a member substitution from MSHA to WHS as its parent.Prior to the February merger, NCH was the sole owner of Dickenson Community Hospital (DCH), a critical access hospital located in Clintwood, Virginia. NCH and DCH are part of the Ballad Health network, created when Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System merged February 2018. DCH will also have a member…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($65M) Expenses 100 ($62M) Net assets 100 ($58M)2018 Revenue 104 ($68M) Expenses 101 ($63M) Net assets 110 ($64M)2019 Revenue 110 ($71M) Expenses 107 ($67M) Net assets 116 ($68M)2020 Revenue 117 ($76M) Expenses 112 ($69M) Net assets 73 ($43M)2021 Revenue 68 ($44M) Expenses 79 ($49M) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (68)Expenses (79)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $95M to $0 (−100%).

$97M
$100M
$107M
$95M
$0
20172018201920202021
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.8M
’17
$4.8M
’18
$4.7M
’19
$6.3M
’20
−$4.9M
’21
2.5
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

20172018201920202021
Listed2123232515
Joined·+4+5+6+4
No longer listed·25414
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $13k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
$24k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Norton Community Hospital’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

100% of Norton Community Hospital's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

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

’17
’19
Tennessee 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

Government funding Norton Community Hospital receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.

Federal$9k
grants $0contracts $9k
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$9k

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 Norton Community 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

VA
TN

Part of a family of 40 related entities

  • Norton Community Physician Svcs LLC · disregarded
  • Mountain States Health Alliance · exempt
  • MSHA Auxiliary · exempt
  • Smyth County Community Hospital · exempt
  • Community Healthcare Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Norton Community Hospital?
Norton Community Hospital (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,412 to it, the largest being Ballad Health Auxiliary ($24,412). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Norton Community Hospital have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24,412 in grants to Norton Community Hospital, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Norton Community Hospital?
Ballad Health Auxiliary is the largest funder on record, with $24,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Norton Community Hospital 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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