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Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,067 to it, the largest being JOHN W BURNS TRUST ($368,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$36M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$790k
Net assets
$0
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Penobscot Bay Medical Center does

Mission

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through the emergency department, special care unit, surgical services department, obstetrics and gynecology department, and the psychiatric addiction & recovery center.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

Inpatient & Outpatient Hospital Care: Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) provides quality medical care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap or ability to pay. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of PBMC, not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services. Our mission is to serve the community by providing health care services and health care education. In keeping with this hospital's commitment to serve all members of its community, we provide free care and subsidized care to persons covered by governmental programs below cost, and health activities and programs for the community. (Continued at Schedule O)(Continued from Part III, Line 4a)PBMC served 881 inpatients, including newborns and 47,343 outpatients including ER visits, during the short period. Twenty-four-hour medical emergency service is provided in the Emergency Room, staffed by full-time attending physicians. Patients are seen regardless of ability to pay. There were 4,654 visits to the Emergency Room during the short period. Recognizing its mission to the community, services are provided to both Medicare & MaineCare…

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 ($117M) Expenses 100 ($122M) Net assets 100 ($41M)2018 Revenue 112 ($131M) Expenses 106 ($129M) Net assets 106 ($43M)2019 Revenue 31 ($36M) Expenses 28 ($34M) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019
Revenue (31)Expenses (28)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 2018 to 2019, from $121M to $0 (−100%).

$121M
$121M
$0
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5.2M
’17
$1.4M
’18
$1.5M
’19
1.4
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.

201720182019
Listed282927
Joined·+4+2
No longer listed·34
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $96k → $88k.

From the IRS filings of Penobscot Bay Medical Center’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

Penobscot Bay Medical Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

47%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 66% · 2019 78% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 61% · 2023 69% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of Penobscot Bay Medical Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Penobscot Bay Medical Center draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.

ME
NY
PA
DE
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maine 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

Organizations like Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Coastal Healthcare Alliance · exempt
  • Quarry Hill · exempt
  • Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation · exempt
  • Penobscot Bay Physicians & Assoc · exempt
  • Maine Healthcare · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Penobscot Bay Medical Center?
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,067 to it, the largest being JOHN W BURNS TRUST ($368,798). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Penobscot Bay Medical Center have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $790,067 in grants to Penobscot Bay Medical Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Penobscot Bay Medical Center?
JOHN W BURNS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $368,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Penobscot Bay Medical Center 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 8 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