Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,455,738 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($902,364). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half 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.
- The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphiashared fundersportfolio match
- Hyundai Hope on Wheelsshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $254k → $777k.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $529k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Capital Region). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 30% · 2019 50% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 39% — 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
52% of THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
53% of THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.1M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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. Your 36 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphiashared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hyundai Hope on Wheelsshared fundersCA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation for Surgical Fellowshipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gamers Outreach Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Research and Educational Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Encourage Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance Nctn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blood Cancer United Incshared fundersDC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Penn State Hershey Endoscopy Center · disregarded
- St Joseph Regional Health Network · exempt
- St Joseph Medical Center Foundation · exempt
- St Joseph Medical Group · exempt
- The Pennsylvania State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER: 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 THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER?
- THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,455,738 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($902,364). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,455,738 in grants to THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $902,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 36funders 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