Michigan · Nonprofit
SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL
SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $437,394 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($437,394). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $-1841255
What Sparrow Carson Hospital does
Mission
The mission of umh-Sparrow Carson Hospital is to provide high quality & accessible health care services to communities we serve. Umh-Sparrow Carson Hospital provides charity care to patients who meet certain criteria.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Umh-sparrow carson's outpatient services are typical of a rural facility. The emergency department provides nursing and physician services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with physicians on site 100% of the time. Screening exams are provided to everyone who presents for services prior to any financial information being obtained or charges discussed with patients in accordance with emergency medical treatment and active labor act (emtala). Laboratory, radiology, respiratory services, surgery, as well as infusion/oncology are typical of other outpatient services provided. Umh- sparrow carson accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare with reimbursement or below costs. Additionally, umh-sparrow carson's charity care policy covers services in the outpatient setting, in turn providing free care to those in the community who qualify. For the year ended june 30, 2025, umh-sparrow carson recorded 9,809 emergency room visits; 78,781 lab tests; 26,254 radiology procedures; 8,085 cardio/respiratory procedures; 11,151 physical therapy procedures; 946 surgeries/1,075 scopes; and 1,647 infusion/oncology visits.
$24,014,016 spent$42,828,387 earned by the program53% of program spendingUmh-sparrow carson operates five primary care physician offices within montcalm, clinton and gratiot counties, as well as some specialty care within areas such as ob/gyn, general surgery, orthopedics, pain management, gastroenterology, urology and gynecological oncology. The primary care practices are located in the communities of carson city, fowler, stanton, ithaca, and greenville and are designated as rural health centers. Umh- sparrow carson accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare, with reimbursement rates at or below costs. Additionally, umh-sparrow carson's charity care policy covers services in the outpatient setting, in turn providing free care to those in the community who qualify. For the year ended june 30, 2025, there were 69,923 visits in our physician offices.
$15,117,845 spent$7,205,849 earned by the program33% of program spendingUmh-sparrow carson is a 61-bed acute care hospital located in rural montcalm county, serving the residents of the four county area surrounding carson city (montcalm, gratiot, clinton and ionia counties). Umh-sparrow carson provides nursing and physician services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For the year ended june 30, 2025, there were 629 admissions with 1,748 inpatient days of care. Nursing staff are on site 100% of the time, and hospitalist coverage is available on an on-call basis 100% of the time when not in the hospital. Umh-sparrow carson accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare with reimbursement at or below costs. Additionally, the hospital's charity care policy covers all inpatient services, in turn providing free care to those in the community who qualify.
$6,185,546 spent$6,087,270 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,317,407.
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 2017 to 2018, from $54M to $38M (−30%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
John Hendrickson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $12k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $293k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sparrow Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL’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
100% of SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Michigan 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
SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Regents of the Univ of Michigan · exempt
- West Michigan Radiation Oncology · exempt
- Metropolitan Hospital (Umh West) · exempt
- Um Health · exempt
- Metropolitan Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL?
- SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $437,394 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($437,394). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $437,394 in grants to SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL?
- MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $437,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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