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THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC

THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,781,624 to it, the largest being WALTER SCOTT FOUNDATION ($1,633,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$5.2M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What The Southeast Alabama Medical Center Foundation Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to support healthcare in southeast alabama and surrounding areas. The foundation provides financial support to the houston county health care authority dba southeast health medical center (southeast health) and its affiliates by establishing partnerships in order to enhance health and wellness in southeast alabama, northwest florida and southwest georgia. The foundation works to strengthen relationships between southeast health, its affiliates and the community while helping fund both present and future equipment, technology, facility expansion and clinical program needs. The foundation seeks to support the feasibility, design, and construction of physical structures outlined in the long-range facility improvement plan for southeast health and its affiliates; assist in underwriting new technology and lifesaving medical equipment; prevent or lessen the impact detection programs and intervention; facilitate initiatives that encourage a healthy community; and identify and c

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support healthcare in southeast alabama and surrounding areas. The foundation provides financial support to the houston county health care authority dba southeast health medical center and the alabama college of osteopathic medicine.

    $630,259 spentof which $630,259 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $630,259.

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 ($983k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 64 ($626k) Expenses 42 ($447k) Net assets 106 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 81 ($793k) Expenses 88 ($938k) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 91 ($895k) Expenses 41 ($436k) Net assets 116 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 68 ($671k) Expenses 26 ($277k) Net assets 130 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 102 ($999k) Expenses 84 ($898k) Net assets 133 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 102 ($999k) Expenses 57 ($610k) Net assets 146 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 117 ($1.2M) Expenses 87 ($932k) Net assets 153 ($4.6M)2025 Revenue 131 ($1.3M) Expenses 63 ($675k) Net assets 174 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (63)Net assets (174)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 2024 to 2025, from $4.6M to $5.3M (+14%).

$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$5.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$88k
’17
$179k
’18
−$145k
’19
$460k
’20
$394k
’21
$101k
’22
$389k
’23
$221k
’24
$615k
’25
91
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.

Board chair

Marci Nordhues

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed322920261624222222
Joined·+9+4+7+3+10+2+5+0
No longer listed·12131132450
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $212k → $228k.

1 of 11 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.

From the IRS filings of THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC’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

THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 94% — 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

17% of THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

OH
CA
KS
TN
NC
AL
TX

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $774 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve91.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 0%Fundraising 7%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,781,624 to it, the largest being WALTER SCOTT FOUNDATION ($1,633,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,781,624 in grants to THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC?
WALTER SCOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,633,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 11 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