Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,581,500 to it, the largest being NOORIL-IMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,545,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $666M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $173M
What The Lowell General Hospital does
Mission
To meet the healthcare needs of communities served through the provision of inpatient and outpatient medical services. To provide services, programs and initiatives to improve the health and quality of life of the citizens in the area, with a particular focus on people who are medically underserved, at risk, or financially disadvantaged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lowell general hospital's outpatient and ancillary services include emergency department (level iii trauma services), imaging/radiology (including mri, ct, ultrasound, mammography), laboratory, cardiac testing and catheterization, endoscopy, surgery, rehabilitation therapies, radiation oncology and chemotherapy, and a number of other services needed to support inpatient and outpatient care.
$291,453,381 spentof which $163,092 as grants$346,921,598 earned by the program57% of program spendingLowell general hospital's primary service area ("psa") is comprised of the following nine communities: billerica, chelmsford, dracut, dunstable, lowell, tewksbury, tyngsboro and westford, massachusetts, and pelham, new hampshire, with a total of approximately 291,000 residents. The hospital's secondary service area ("ssa") has a population of almost 340,000 and includes the surrounding municipalities of andover, carlisle, groton, lawrence, littleton, methuen, north andover, pepperell and wilmington, massachusetts, and hollis, hudson and nashua, new hampshire.the hospital offers the latest technology and a full range of medical, surgical and critical care services for patients, from newborns to seniors. It is currently licensed by the massachusetts department of public health to operate a total of 434 acute care beds (301 adult medical/surgical, 29 intensive care, 40 pediatric, 26 obstetrical, 10 level iib special care nursery bassinets and 28 well-newborn bassinets).
$216,792,918 spent$312,730,146 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $508,246,299.
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 2019 to 2020, from $455M to $603M (+33%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 1% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
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
Michael Dandorph
President & CEO - tufts medicine
Board chair
Naomi M Prendergast
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell $797k → $223k.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $274k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 60% · 2019 33% · 2020 47% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — 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
64% of THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
94% of THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $82.5M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$72.5M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$8.0M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$1.8M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$157k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$28k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$800
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 THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 68 related entities
- Lgh Medical Group LLC · disregarded
- Lgh Cancercare Associates LLC · disregarded
- Circle Health Obgyn · disregarded
- Lgh Merrimack Valley Cardiology Associates LLC · disregarded
- Circle Health Urgent Care LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL?
- THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,581,500 to it, the largest being NOORIL-IMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,545,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,581,500 in grants to THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL?
- NOORIL-IMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,545,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 49 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