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WILDERNESS HEALTH INC

WILDERNESS HEALTH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,500 to it, the largest being INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 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.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$2.3M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Wilderness Health Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to advance patient and community health outcomes, improve the patient experience, and lower the costs of providing health care services for the mostly rural communities we serve in ne minnesota.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wilderness health is a supporting organization for a nine-member hospital network. The three current strategic initiatives include: access and innovation, quality focused care, and workforce development. See schedule o for descriptions of these initiatives.

    $1,059,310 spentof which $89,705 as grants$379,633 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,059,310.

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 ($531k) Expenses 100 ($424k) Net assets 100 ($107k)2018 Revenue 459 ($2.4M) Expenses 123 ($523k) Net assets 1890 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 246 ($1.3M) Expenses 486 ($2.1M) Net assets 1184 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 224 ($1.2M) Expenses 316 ($1.3M) Net assets 1044 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 270 ($1.4M) Expenses 250 ($1.1M) Net assets 1394 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 351 ($1.9M) Expenses 355 ($1.5M) Net assets 1731 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 328 ($1.7M) Expenses 388 ($1.6M) Net assets 1822 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 377 ($2.0M) Expenses 386 ($1.6M) Net assets 2168 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (377)Expenses (386)Net assets (2168)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 $362k to $2.5M (+584%).

$362k
$2.5M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.6M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2021 76% · 2022 75% · 2023 77% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of WILDERNESS HEALTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$107k
’17
$1.9M
’18
−$755k
’19
−$150k
’20
$374k
’21
$361k
’22
$97k
’23
$369k
’24
16
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

Cassandra Beardsley

Executive director

Board chair

Greg Ruberg

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1012161213101012
Joined·+2+5+1+1+1+0+3
No longer listed·0150401
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $26k.

1 of 4 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.

From the IRS filings of WILDERNESS HEALTH 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

WILDERNESS HEALTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

73% 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 WILDERNESS HEALTH INC.

53%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% — diversifying over time.

“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

53% of WILDERNESS HEALTH INC'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 $36k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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

WILDERNESS HEALTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding WILDERNESS HEALTH INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
  • Department of Labor$108k

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 WILDERNESS HEALTH INC

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Bigfork Valley Hospital · exempt
  • Community Memorial Hospital Assoc · exempt
  • Cook Hospital · exempt
  • Cook County Hospital District · exempt
  • Range Regional Health Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILDERNESS HEALTH INC?
WILDERNESS HEALTH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,500 to it, the largest being INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 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 WILDERNESS HEALTH INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $75,500 in grants to WILDERNESS HEALTH INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILDERNESS HEALTH INC?
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILDERNESS HEALTH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing