Michigan · Nonprofit
SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL
SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,526 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($437,394). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $90M
What Sparrow Ionia Hospital does
Mission
To advance health to serve michigan and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Umh-sparrow ionia's outpatient services are typical of a small 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 ionia accepts all governmental payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare with reimbursement at or below costs. Additionally, umh-sparrow ionia's charity care policy covers services in the outpatient setting, in turn providing free care to those in the community who quality. For the year ended june 30, 2025, umh-sparrow ionia recorded 17,705 emergency room visits; 270,724 lab tests; 37,618 radiology procedures;15,978 respiratory procedures; 871 surgeries/1,146 scopes; and 4,521 infusion/oncology visits.
$25,532,093 spent$54,955,354 earned by the program52% of program spendingUmh-sparrow ionia operates three physician practice offices within ionia county, offering primary care as well as some specialty care within areas such as ob/gyn, general surgery, orthopedics, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, pulmonology and nephrology. The primary care practices are located in the communities of ionia, saranac, and portland, and are designated as rural health centers as well as patient-centered medical homes. Umh-sparrow ionia accepts all government payers including medicare, medicaid, and tricare, with reimbursement rates at or below costs. Additionally, umh- sparrow ionia'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 76,159 visits in our physician offices.
$16,690,208 spent$14,355,094 earned by the program34% of program spendingUmh-sparrow ionia's inpatient services are typical of a small rural facility. Operating 22 beds, umh-sparrow ionia provides nursing and physician services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For the year ended june 30, 2025, there were 882 admissions with 2,471 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 ionia 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.
$6,476,957 spent$7,521,222 earned by the program13% of program spendingAll other program services include services such as radiology, laboratory, respiratory therapy, physical therapy, infusion services, as well as inpatient hospital services.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,699,258.
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 2024 to 2025, from $86M to $105M (+22%).
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 9% · 2021 0% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SPARROW IONIA 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. 1 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $12k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $439k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sparrow Ionia Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of SPARROW IONIA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL 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 SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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 SPARROW IONIA 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. $132 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.
Against its field
SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 IONIA HOSPITAL?
- SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,526 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH ($437,394). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $437,526 in grants to SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW IONIA 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 IONIA 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 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