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West Virginia United Health System Inc

West Virginia United Health System Inc (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,050,000 to it, the largest being Highmark Foundation ($1,050,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$520M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$181M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What West Virginia United Health System Inc does

Mission

West Virginia United Health System is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves through the delivery of quality, cost effective health care services support of health professional training and research. WVUHS provides integrated support services to reduce costs for member hospitals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. West Virginia United Health System, Inc. dba West Virginia University Health System WVUHS was formed to serve as a part of an integrated health science and healthcare delivery system. WVUHS functions to provide strategic leadership, oversight, and centralized support services for member hospitals and affiliated organizations which allow those entities to deliver higher quality healthcare, reduce the costs of services provided to the public, and provide better environment for education and research. An example of support services provided by WVUHS includes centralized contracting and procurement, historically saving the member organizations in excess of 20 million per year. WVUHS also facilitates the sharing of clinical information to streamline development of quality improvement, clinical best practice, and data sharing efforts. Finally, there is a highly shared focus on quality of care and patient satisfaction at the system level, as the WVUHS Board of Directors continuously looks at Clinical Quality and Patient Satisfaction dashboards which track results from each facility.

    $546,660,312 spentof which $2,090,500 as grants$479,456,791 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $546,660,312.

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 ($128M) Expenses 100 ($135M) Net assets 100 ($69M)2018 Revenue 129 ($165M) Expenses 132 ($179M) Net assets 121 ($83M)2019 Revenue 188 ($240M) Expenses 184 ($249M) Net assets 177 ($122M)2020 Revenue 197 ($252M) Expenses 217 ($294M) Net assets 161 ($111M)2021 Revenue 224 ($287M) Expenses 242 ($328M) Net assets 130 ($89M)2022 Revenue 276 ($353M) Expenses 276 ($374M) Net assets 156 ($108M)2023 Revenue 349 ($446M) Expenses 357 ($483M) Net assets 224 ($154M)2024 Revenue 406 ($520M) Expenses 407 ($552M) Net assets 263 ($181M)
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Revenue (406)Expenses (407)Net assets (263)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 2019 to 2020, from $193M to $316M (+64%).

$111M
$142M
$193M
$316M
$323M
$369M
$424M
$498M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of West Virginia United Health System Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7.6M
’17
−$13M
’18
−$9.2M
’19
−$42M
’20
−$42M
’21
−$21M
’22
−$37M
’23
−$32M
’24
1.4
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.

Chief executive

Albert L Wright Jr

President CEO WVUHS

Board chair

E Gordon Gee

Director - Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed4440484750475050
Joined·+8+16+3+6+6+6+5
No longer listed·12843935
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $500k.

Funder
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of West Virginia United Health System 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.

Where its funders are

West Virginia United Health System Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 1 state in all.

PA

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

’21
’23
West Virginia out of state home

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

West Virginia United Health System Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

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In West Virginia

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 53 related entities

  • Ahs LLC · disregarded
  • Gateway Home Care · disregarded
  • Allied Lab Services LLC · disregarded
  • Population Health Services LLC · disregarded
  • Accountable Care Organization of West Virginia LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds West Virginia United Health System Inc?
West Virginia United Health System Inc (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,050,000 to it, the largest being Highmark Foundation ($1,050,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does West Virginia United Health System Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,050,000 in grants to West Virginia United Health System Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of West Virginia United Health System Inc?
Highmark Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like West Virginia United Health System Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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