Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $19M
What The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education does
Mission
(see on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
As one of the largest hrsa-funded teaching health center gme-sncs in the nation, twcgme structured its governance with uncommon intentionality and humility. Each gne-snc participating fqhc and fqhc-lal was granted an empowered voice at the community-led governing board level, reflecting a shared-stewardship philosophy inspired by the work of nobel prize-winning economist and political scientist elinor ostrom on common-pool resources and grounded in trust, transparency, cooperation, and collective responsibility. This governance architecture required twcgme to absorb and manage risk on behalf of partner communities, including during periods when federal program requirements, accreditation standards, and funding determinations were not fully aligned. The structure was refined through the nfmr's lived experience, reinforcing twcgme's conviction that sustainable workforce renewal must be cocreated with communities rather than imposed on them. As a living expression of twcgme's gme-snc model's success, during the covered period, twcgme proudly guided and supported the establishment of two new, independent, initial acgme-accredited sponsoring institutions and family medicine residency programs with conditionally awarded teaching health center graduate medical education funding at its longtime nfmr program partners, el rio health in tucson, arizona, and healthpoint in auburn, washington. These transitions reflect the intentional design of the nfmr as a time-limited incubator rather…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Teaching health center graduate medical education (thcgme) funding: a community-based and governed, physician-led, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, twcgme is an anchoring educational member of a graduate medical education safety-net consortium (gme-snc) striving to address our nation's primary care physician shortage and mis-distribution, and related health, health care, and health career access needs and challenges. Twcgme's mission is to improve the health and welfare of our communities through responsive, whole-person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. Twcgme, an independent nonprofit sponsoring institution accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme), trains nearly 200 medical residents and fellows each year through its unique graduate medical education safety-net consortium (gme-snc), which is funded by three federal gme funding agencies (hrsa, affiliated hospital and inpatient rehabilitation facility partners who receive reimbursement from cms, and the va). Our operations are supported by an enriched community resource network of multiple health care…
$12,556,943 spent49% of program spendingCms and va funding for graduate medical education: as a community-based, physician-led nonprofit organization striving to address our nation's primary care physician shortage and related health, health care, and health care career access needs and challenges, twcgme is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and anchoring member of a graduate medical education safety-net consortium (gme-snc) that, during the reporting period, served as the independent acgme-accredited sponsoring institution of residency programs in internal medicine, family medicine, and physical medicine & rehabilitation (pm&r), fellowship programs in geriatrics, cardiovascular disease, and gastroenterology, and an internal medicine-geriatrics integrated residency and fellowship pathway, commonly known as the combined med-geri pathway. In northeast pennsylvania, twcgme's resident and fellow physician learners train experientially in regional hospitals owned and operated by commonwealth health systems, geisinger health system, and the veterans affairs administration through its wilkes barre facility, as well as allied services and john heinz inpatient rehabilitation facilities (irf) and their integrated delivery system…
$9,653,243 spent$12,473,623 earned by the program37% of program spendingGrants: twcgme is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) that passionately applies for mission-aligned and mission-amplifying federal, state, local, and philanthropic agencies' grant funding initiatives as needed and appropriate to ensure, accelerate, and further the delivery of our mission to improve the health and welfare of our communities through responsive, whole person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. We vet all potential mission-aligned grant initiatives for community health needs-responsiveness and community benefit impact, as well as feasibility, outcomes achievability, and sustainability. With a fervent commitment to authenticity and the highest stewardship integrity and accountability standards, through active partnerships with a wide variety of local, regional, state, and national funders, we strive to: promote unprecedented, high-impact, cross-organizational collaboration; foster shared purpose and accountability and mutually reinforcing collective impact-oriented action strategies; and demonstrate trusted transformational stewardship of public resources to address community health needs…
$1,864,039 spentof which $541,654 as grants7% of program spendingOther - common paymaster: in accordance with irs regulations, twcgme acts as the common paymaster for its primary affiliate, the wright center for community health (twcch), a federally qualified health center look-alike. To operationalize this common paymaster function, twcgme and twcch have established shared mission-driven covenants and staffing lease agreements to provide various services. Twcch compensated twcgme through intercompany allocation methodologies for these services, including clinical, executive, administrative, and back-office support, covering human resources, information technology, marketing and communications, finance, billing, grants, governance support, government relations, legal, and other related services. The revenue recorded for these support services, as performed by twcgme on behalf of twcch, is represented on line 2b of the statement of revenue ($7,663,328). In operationalizing the common paymaster functionality, twcgme has entered into staffing lease agreements with twcch for the provision of certain administrative and executive services. This consolidated payroll system covers all employees except for twcch's president and chief executive officer,…
$1,762,728 spentof which $1,633,926 as grants$9,436,716 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,836,953.
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 $12M to $29M (+147%).
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 48% · 2018 54% · 2019 53% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 50% · 2023 49% · 2024 51% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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
Linda Thomas-Hemak Md
President & CEO
Board chair
Harold Baillie Phd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $25k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $704k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Wright Center Medical Group). These are real filings, and they are not money The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education raised.
From the IRS filings of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’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 Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
33% 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 Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 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
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education is better cushioned than half 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 The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $207.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$207.5M
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 Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 5 related entities
- The Wright Center Medical Group · exempt
- Patient Engagement Council · exempt
- The Wright Center Alliance · exempt
- Community Health Hub · exempt
- Commonwealth Dental Care Initiative · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education?
- The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education.
- Who is the largest funder of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education 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 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