Michigan · Nonprofit
SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM
SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,296 to it, the largest being COMMERCE BANCSHARES FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 877 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Heart of Illinois United Way Incshared funders
- Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mhaportfolio match
- Michigan Center for Rural Healthportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM’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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $47.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM’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
SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Heart of Illinois United Way Incshared fundersIL · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mhaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Center for Rural Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington's Disease Society of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Foundation for Surgical Fellowshipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance Nctn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit & Wayne County Tuberculosis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Cardiology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miles for Migraineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Michigan Regional Medical Consortiumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Defense$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$559k
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 SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
12% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 30 related entities
- Sparrow Care Network · disregarded
- Regents of the Univ of Michigan · exempt
- West Michigan Radiation Oncology · exempt
- Metropolitan Hospital (Umh West) · exempt
- Um Health · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM?
- SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,296 to it, the largest being COMMERCE BANCSHARES FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,296 in grants to SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM?
- COMMERCE BANCSHARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROW HEALTH SYSTEM 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing