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South Carolina Hospital Association

South Carolina Hospital Association (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $113,440 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($113,440). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$113k
Net assets
$20M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What South Carolina Hospital Association does

Mission

Leading south carolina to a better state of health.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scha provides support services including representation, advocacy, education, consultation, and communications. Scha serves approximately 65,000 full-time employees and 83 institutional member hospitals. During 2023, scha presented educational programs covering the following topics: recruitment & retention, requirements of government regulations, patient safety, cultural diversity, third party reimbursement, reengineering, dsh, and certificates of need. Scha promotes the welfare of the people of south carolina by providing for the development, improvement, and perpetuation of hospitals and promoting higher standards of patient care.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($6.2M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.3M)2018 Revenue 348 ($22M) Expenses 90 ($5.5M) Net assets 335 ($21M)2019 Revenue 94 ($5.8M) Expenses 95 ($5.8M) Net assets 371 ($23M)2020 Revenue 84 ($5.2M) Expenses 103 ($6.3M) Net assets 392 ($25M)2021 Revenue 120 ($7.4M) Expenses 110 ($6.8M) Net assets 420 ($27M)2022 Revenue 20 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 272 ($17M)2023 Revenue 78 ($4.8M) Expenses 88 ($5.4M) Net assets 290 ($18M)2024 Revenue 116 ($7.2M) Expenses 93 ($5.7M) Net assets 322 ($20M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (93)Net assets (322)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $8.5M to $23M (+175%).

$8.5M
$23M
$26M
$27M
$28M
$23M
$21M
$23M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2020 14% · 2021 20% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$87k
’17
$16M
’18
$43k
’19
−$1.1M
’20
$686k
’21
−$4.8M
’22
−$591k
’23
$1.5M
’24
2.4
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.

Chief executive

Thornton Kirby

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2629342929273022
Joined·+11+11+4+5+4+15+8
No longer listed·869561216
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $384k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest SCHA Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money South Carolina Hospital Association raised.

From the IRS filings of South Carolina 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

South Carolina Hospital Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.

NC

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 South Carolina Hospital Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.

Federal$4.2M
grants $4.2Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$4.2M

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 South Carolina Hospital Association

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In South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • SCHA Foundation · exempt
  • Hospital Association PAC · exempt
  • Solvent Networks · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds South Carolina Hospital Association?
South Carolina Hospital Association (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $113,440 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($113,440). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does South Carolina Hospital Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $113,440 in grants to South Carolina Hospital Association.
Who is the largest funder of South Carolina Hospital Association?
NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $113,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like South Carolina Hospital Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 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