Minnesota · Nonprofit
SMDC MEDICAL CENTER
SMDC MEDICAL CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500,492 to it, the largest being ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($17,495,492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $846M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $257M
What Smdc Medical Center does
Mission
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Smdc Medical Center, dba essentia health duluth, is created and organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. More specifically, essentia health duluth shall own, maintain, operate and conduct health care and related activities and facilities for the promotion of health within its community, including charitable care to persons unable to pay.essentia health duluth has a joint commission accredited hospital with 165 licensed beds and 10 multi-specialty clinics serving st. Louis county. Essentia health duluth offers a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services for its patients, including imaging/radiology, surgery, lab, neurosciences, cancer services, orthopedics, family and pediatrics services, behavioral health, rehabilitation, and heart and vascular.essentia health duluth employs approximately 1,825 full time equivalents. The hospital provided nearly 30,000 hospital patient days and 44,000 outpatient visits during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025. The clinics had nearly 673,000 encounters during the same time period.during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, essentia health duluth provided the following community benefits: $2.1…
$789,188,494 spentof which $1,635,198 as grants$843,860,162 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $789,188,494.
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 2018 to 2019, from $671M to $1.3B (+98%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SMDC MEDICAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $242k → $99k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $108k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest College of St Scholastica Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SMDC MEDICAL CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of SMDC 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
SMDC MEDICAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 SMDC MEDICAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SMDC MEDICAL CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
SMDC MEDICAL CENTER is better cushioned 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 SMDC MEDICAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $20
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 SMDC 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Essentia Health Virginia LLC · disregarded
- Brainerd Medical Center Inc · exempt
- Bridges Medical Center · exempt
- Deer River Healthcare Center Inc · exempt
- Essentia Health · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMDC MEDICAL CENTER: 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 SMDC MEDICAL CENTER?
- SMDC MEDICAL CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500,492 to it, the largest being ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($17,495,492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMDC MEDICAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500,492 in grants to SMDC MEDICAL CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMDC MEDICAL CENTER?
- ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,495,492 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMDC MEDICAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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