Georgia · Nonprofit
SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,096,578 to it, the largest being LORETHA AND PAUL THIELE CHARITABLE TR ($550,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What South Georgia Medical Center Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support public healthcare by providing support to or for the benefit of the hospital authority of valdosta and lowndes county georgia dba south georgia medical center (authority) and other health care organizations exempt under irc sections 501(c)(3) that support the mission of the authority.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Grants are made to the authority, and to south georgia health alliance, both 501(c)(3) organizations, for operations and capital improvements. Grants may also be made to support other nonprofit organizations in the community that support the healthcare mission of the authority and the alliance.
$5,656,543 spentof which $5,656,543 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,656,543.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.5M to $7.5M (+37%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Ronald Dean
CEO
Board chair
Hayden Hancock
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $120k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC’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
SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 65% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
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
93% of SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hosp Auth of Valdostalowndes Co Ga · exempt
- South Georgia Health Alliance Inc · exempt
- South Georgia Medical Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: 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 SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
- SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,096,578 to it, the largest being LORETHA AND PAUL THIELE CHARITABLE TR ($550,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,096,578 in grants to SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
- LORETHA AND PAUL THIELE CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 10 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