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Phillips County Hospital Association

Phillips County Hospital Association (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $324,229 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($324,229). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$324k
Net assets
$6.2M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Phillips County Hospital Association does

Mission

To make a difference in healthcare.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Phillips County Hospital Association is a 6-bed critical access hospital (CAH) and provider based Rural Health Clinic that is contracted with one physician and employs four nurse practitioners, and is located in Malta, Montana. The Hospital provides quality care and services in ER, Inpatient, Outpatient and swing bed medical care along with home/community-based services to all ages of our community in Phillips County, Montana and the surrounding areas. During FY 2025 the Organization had total inpatient days of 735 with an average daily census of 2.01. There were a total of 1,226 ER patients.(Continued on Schedule O)The provider based Rural Health Clinic (RHC) provides family practice/primary care to meet the medical needs of our rural/frontier community of all ages regardless of ability to pay. Our RHC is HPSA designated as well as a NHSN site. Total visits for Fiscal Year 2025: 4,692.Home and Community Based services offered includes Visiting Nurse Services, Personal Assistance and DME/oxygen. These services meet the needs of our community's elderly and disabled who have limited to no resources and wish to be able to remain in the community. These individuals either can't make…

    $7,428,959 spentof which $1,573 as grants$9,073,251 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,428,959.

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 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 100 ($7.0M)2018 Revenue 105 ($6.8M) Expenses 104 ($6.7M) Net assets 105 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 100 ($6.5M) Expenses 104 ($6.7M) Net assets 101 ($7.1M)2020 Revenue 107 ($7.0M) Expenses 110 ($7.1M) Net assets 98 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 155 ($10M) Expenses 115 ($7.4M) Net assets 142 ($9.9M)2022 Revenue 131 ($8.6M) Expenses 143 ($9.2M) Net assets 130 ($9.0M)2023 Revenue 144 ($9.4M) Expenses 171 ($11M) Net assets 104 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 122 ($7.9M) Expenses 136 ($8.8M) Net assets 95 ($6.6M)2025 Revenue 141 ($9.2M) Expenses 149 ($9.6M) Net assets 89 ($6.2M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (149)Net assets (89)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 2020 to 2021, from $9.1M to $12M (+38%).

$8.8M
$9.0M
$8.5M
$9.1M
$12M
$12M
$11M
$10M
$8.9M
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of Phillips County Hospital Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’17
$149k
’18
−$193k
’19
−$131k
’20
$2.7M
’21
−$681k
’22
−$1.6M
’23
−$809k
’24
−$405k
’25
0.5
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.

Chief executive

Jo Tharp

CEO

Board chair

Howard Hammond

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141518181816201618
Joined·+1+4+3+3+6+10+6+7
No longer listed·013386105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Montana Health Research & Education Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Phillips County Hospital Association raised.

From the IRS filings of Phillips County Hospital Association’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

Phillips County Hospital Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

NY

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

Phillips County Hospital Association's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Phillips County Hospital Association

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Phillips County Hospital Association?
Phillips County Hospital Association (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $324,229 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($324,229). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Phillips County Hospital Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $324,229 in grants to Phillips County Hospital Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Phillips County Hospital Association?
THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $324,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Phillips County Hospital Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 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