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ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA

ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,910,113 to it, the largest being AIDSNET INC ($10,229,189). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8B
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
$1.2B
48/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa does

Mission

The mission of the organization is to provide compassionate, excellent quality and cost effective healthcare to the residents of the communities we serve regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. The organization is an affiliate within st. Luke's university health network ("network"); a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery network. St. Luke's health network, inc. Is the tax-exempt parent entity of the network. The network's mission is to care for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, improve our communities' overall health, and educate our health care professionals. Please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

  1. Expenses incurred in providing emergency and medically necessary healthcare services to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. Please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement (statement of program services) which includes detailed information regarding the various services provided by this organization.

    $1,621,132,027 spentof which $16,965,841 as grants$1,689,865,571 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,621,132,027.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($783M) Expenses 100 ($736M) Net assets 100 ($585M)2018 Revenue 114 ($895M) Expenses 109 ($805M) Net assets 122 ($714M)2019 Revenue 127 ($991M) Expenses 119 ($872M) Net assets 134 ($782M)2020 Revenue 126 ($983M) Expenses 128 ($942M) Net assets 139 ($814M)2021 Revenue 151 ($1.2B) Expenses 142 ($1.0B) Net assets 160 ($934M)2022 Revenue 182 ($1.4B) Expenses 180 ($1.3B) Net assets 151 ($882M)2023 Revenue 182 ($1.4B) Expenses 192 ($1.4B) Net assets 158 ($924M)2024 Revenue 200 ($1.6B) Expenses 210 ($1.5B) Net assets 172 ($1.0B)2025 Revenue 229 ($1.8B) Expenses 233 ($1.7B) Net assets 201 ($1.2B)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (233)Net assets (201)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.0B to $2.8B (+43%).

$1.5B
$1.8B
$2.0B
$2.8B
$3.4B
$3.3B
$3.3B
$3.6B
$3.9B
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47M
’17
$90M
’18
$120M
’19
$41M
’20
$139M
’21
$104M
’22
$15M
’23
$18M
’24
$73M
’25
2.1
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

Richard A Anderson

Trustee - President/CEO-SLUHN

Board chair

Robert B Black

Chairman - Trustee

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272627232928282724
Joined·+4+3+1+8+4+4+2+0
No longer listed·52525433
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.7M.

15 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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

ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA.

49%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 54% · 2020 44% · 2021 49% · 2022 41% · 2023 49% — 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.

How long its funders stay

48% of ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.

State$5k
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18
19
Top programs
  • (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$5k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$170

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 ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 35 related entities

  • St Luke's Airmed LLC · disregarded
  • St Luke's Homestar Services LLC · disregarded
  • Pocono Mri Imaging and Diagnostic Center · disregarded
  • Evantage Health LLC · disregarded
  • St Luke's Care LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA: 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 ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA?
ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,910,113 to it, the largest being AIDSNET INC ($10,229,189). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $20,910,113 in grants to ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA?
AIDSNET INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,229,189 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing