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TOWER HEALTH

TOWER HEALTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BERKS COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$502M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$53M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Tower Health does

Mission

The mission of Tower Health is to provide compassionate, accessible, high quality, cost effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to educate healthcare professionals; and to participate in appropriate clinical research. Tower Health (parent) is a non-profit healthcare system that provides charitable community-based healthcare services and programs to improve the health and well-being of the people and the communities it serves in the greater berks, montgomery and chester areas through its subsidiaries (see form 990, schedule r). Subsidiaries include but are not limited to phoenixville hospital, and pottstown hospital, the two of which are held in single member llcs that Tower Health is the sole member of. As a result, these are treated as disregarded entities and all of their income and activities are reported on Tower Health's form 990. As a provider of direct care, Tower Health addresses issues outside that realm that impact health and wellness. In fact, a key part of

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Er/nursing inpatient & outpatient program: phoenixville hospital: phoenixville hospital emergency department provides emergency, urgent and primary care services to the community "24/7/365" regardless of ability to pay. Phoenixville hospital also provides immediate access through its emergency department to ancillary services, from surgeons to all areas of specialty care. Phoenixville hospital has "24/7/365" on-call consultants for pediatric emergency cases through st. Christopher's hospital for children. Local ems providers rely on phoenixville hospital for on-going medical education. Emergency room visits for fy25 were 24,794. Phoenixville hospital inpatient units include medical surgical, telemetry and intensive care units, labor and delivery, rehabilitation, nursery and nicu. They provide inpatient acute services including support such as laboratory, pharmacy, physical therapy and radiology. Total patient days for fy25 were 36,602. Pottstown hospital: pottstown hospital emergency department provides emergency, urgent and primary care services 24/7/365 to the community. The emergency department serves patients from berks, montgomery and chester counties. The pottstown hospital…

    $81,051,267 spent$117,900,039 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  2. Operating room services: phoenixville hospital: phoenixville hospital's surgical department provides surgical services to the community in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. These services include: cariology, cardio, thoracis, ent, orthopedics, gynecology, obstetrics, urology, pain management, plastic, podiatry, neuro and general surgery. The robotics surgery program received the center of excellence accreditation in 2023. Total procedures for fy25 were 9,404. Pottstown hospital: pottstown hospital's surgical services department provides emergent, urgent and elective surgeries to the community on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Emergency cases can be done 24/7/365 and patients needing a higher level of care can be transferred to tertiary centers in the area. Pottstown hospital offers, orthopedic, vascular, spine, ent, maxofacial, plastic, ob/gyn, ophthalmologic, urologic, podiatric and general surgery. Total procedures for fy25 were 4,842.

    $55,184,902 spent$54,854,407 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Radiology/imaging program: phoenixville hospital: phoenixville hospital radiology department provides imaging services to the community in both an inpatient and outpatient setting in two locations. These services include but are not limited to pet/ct scans, ultrasounds, ct scans, mris, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and mammograms. Phoenixville hospital offers free mammograms to the underinsured and uninsured patients. Total procedures for fy25 were 87,789. Pottstown hospital: pottstown hospital radiology department provides imaging services to the community in both an inpatient and outpatient setting in two locations. These services include but are not limited to pet/ct scans, ultrasounds, ct scans, mris, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and mammograms. Total procedures for fy25 were 87,014.

    $22,296,339 spent$70,603,217 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  4. Expenses incurred in providing various other medically necessary healthcare services to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, or ability to pay. Services include but are not limited to: phoenixville hospital: phoenixville hospital provides outpatient services for laboratory, radiology patients and dialysis patients. Cancer center patients receive outpatient services based on their treatment plan. Cardio-pulmonary patients utilize the 1st floor rehabilitation gym for prescribed and monitored outpatient exercise. Total procedures for fy25 were 352,928. Phoenixville hospital oncology services department provides medical oncology and radiation therapy services to the community. We provide charity services to our service area who meet our charity policy guidelines. Targeted therapies in our recently renovated infusion suite selectively affect only the cells related to a particular cancer, causing less damage and fewer side effects to surrounding non-cancerous cells and body systems than traditional chemotherapy drugs. Phoenixville hospital actively participates in a number of preventive and treatment clinical trials…

    $248,494,696 spent$177,718,352 earned by the program
    61% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $407,027,204.

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 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($888M)2018 Revenue 1096 ($603M) Expenses 7687 ($476M) Net assets 88 ($782M)2019 Revenue 1089 ($599M) Expenses 11222 ($695M) Net assets 57 ($506M)2020 Revenue 970 ($534M) Expenses 11987 ($743M) Net assets 15 ($133M)2021 Revenue 1021 ($562M) Expenses 11970 ($742M) Net assets -18 ($-157954362)2022 Revenue 1111 ($612M) Expenses 11967 ($742M) Net assets -6 ($-50394233)2023 Revenue 966 ($532M) Expenses 10002 ($620M) Net assets 10 ($90M)2024 Revenue 739 ($407M) Expenses 8299 ($514M) Net assets 4 ($32M)2025 Revenue 913 ($502M) Expenses 8068 ($500M) Net assets 6 ($53M)
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Revenue (913)Expenses (8068)Net assets (6)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.5B to $2.0B (+34%).

$1.5B
$2.0B
$1.8B
$1.9B
$1.6B
$1.6B
$1.7B
$1.6B
$1.7B
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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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of TOWER HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$49M
’17
$127M
’18
−$96M
’19
−$209M
’20
−$180M
’21
−$130M
’22
−$88M
’23
−$108M
’24
$2.4M
’25
3.3
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

Meg Mueller

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed182430313936363326
Joined·+8+11+7+11+4+4+6+3
No longer listed·256374910
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $56k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Berks County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TOWER HEALTH raised.

From the IRS filings of TOWER HEALTH’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.

Where its funders are

100% of TOWER HEALTH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TOWER HEALTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like TOWER HEALTH

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
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 21 related entities

  • Tower Health Providers LLC · disregarded
  • Brandywine Hospital LLC · disregarded
  • Chestnut Hill Hospital LLC · disregarded
  • Jennersville Hospital LLC · disregarded
  • Phoenixville Hospital LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds TOWER HEALTH?
TOWER HEALTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BERKS COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TOWER HEALTH have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to TOWER HEALTH.
Who is the largest funder of TOWER HEALTH?
BERKS COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TOWER HEALTH 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.

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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 1 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