FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

155 MEMORIAL DR

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• FIRST HEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC

  EIN 56-1936354

• FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS SUPPOR T CORP

  EIN 41-4864246

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH, INC. ("FOUNDATION") PROVIDES PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO THE OPERATING ENTITIES AND BUSINESS LINES OF FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS, INC. ("FIRSTHEALTH"), A NOT-FOR-PROFIT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. THIS FY 2025 PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT INCLUDED $10,790,692 IN GRANTS TO FIRSTHEALTH FOR OPERATIONAL SUPPORT OF EXISTING PATIENT CARE FACILITIES AND SERVICES, PHYSICIAN AND CLINICAL STAFF EDUCATION, AND OTHER APPROVED OPERATIONAL NEEDS. SIGNIFICANT FY 2025 DISBURSEMENT FROM THE FOUNDATION TO FIRSTHEALTH INCLUDED, BUT WERE NOT LIMITED TO: * $7,500,000 AS FINAL PAYMENT TOWARD THE FOUNDATION'S FINANCIAL PLEDGE FOR THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER. * $643,330 PAID BY THE FIRSTHEALTH HOSPICE FOUNDATION TO COVER ONGOING ANNUAL OPERATING LOSSES OF THE FIRSTHEALTH HOSPICE HOUSE (INPATIENT FACILITY); PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE HEALING GARDENS AT THE HOSPICE HOUSE, AND TO OFFSET A PORTION OF THE ONGOING PATIENT CARE COSTS OF FIRSTHEALTH'S OUTPATIENT PALLIATIVE CARE PROGRAM NOT PAID THROUGH MEDICARE AND MOST COMMERCIAL INSURANCE COMPANIES. * $533,388 PAID TO COVER THE OPERATING DEFICIT OF THE CLARA MCLEAN HOSPITALITY HOUSE ("CLARA'S HOUSE") LOCATED ON THE FIRSTHEALTH MOORE REGIONAL HOSPITAL - PINEHURST CAMPUS AND TO OFFSET THE COST OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS HELD AT THE FACILITY. * $277,042 PAID IN SUPPORT OF THE FIRSTHEALTH PHYSICIAN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY PROGRAM AND THE CENTER FOR PROVIDER WELL-BEING. * $370,506 DISBURSED FROM THE CANCER CARE FUND TO ASSIST PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCER WITH THE COST OF MEDICATION CO-PAYS, GAS MONEY, ARRANGING SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION NEEDS, SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS, ETC. * $125,000 PAID TO FIRSTHEALTH MOORE REGIONAL HOSPITAL IN SUPPORT OF NUMEROUS NURSING EDUCATION PROGRAMS, NURSING ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS, NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS, EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, ETC. AND FOR ONGOING MAGNET TRAINING. * $523,250 PAID TO PROVIDE UNDERINSURED CHILDREN WITH QUALITY DENTAL CARE AND OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL DENTAL SERVICES FOR NEEDED DENTAL SURGERIES. * $254,246 PAID IN SUPPORT OF THE ENGAGED BRAINS PROJECT, FOCUSING ON A COMMUNITY-WIDE, PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH TO DEMENTIA EDUCATION AND CARE. * $246,000 PAID IN SUPPORT OF THE REID HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION FELLOWSHIP, FOCUSING ON DESIGNING INNOVATIVE, PERSON-CENTERED DEMENTIA CARE PATHWAYS, INVOLVING LOCAL HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES. * $64,343 PAID TO SUPPORT THE FIRSTFUTURES INITIATIVE, PARTNERING WITH AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO PROVIDE STUDENT AID AND FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF THE HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE. * $162,170 DISBURSED BY THE FIRSTHEALTH RICHMOND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE RESIDENTS OF RICHMOND COUNTY. * $40,000 DISBURSED BY THE FIRSTHEALTH MONTGOMERY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE RESIDENTS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE CLARA MCLEAN HOUSE ("CLARA'S HOUSE") SERVED 16,499 GUESTS SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2012. THIS ENCOMPASSED 27,029 ROOM NIGHTS WITH GUESTS VISITING FROM 48 STATES AND 8 COUNTRIES. IN ADDITION, OVER 9,500 VISITS WERE MADE TO THE ON-SITE HEALING GARDEN BY GUESTS AND THE PINEHURST COMMUNITY AT-LARGE. IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, CLARA'S HOUSE CONTINUED ITS FOCUS ON THE CANCER PATIENT POPULATION AS ITS MAIN HOUSING MARKET. WITH THE CANCER CENTER ENTERING ITS THIRD YEAR OF OPERATION, THE NUMBER OF ROOM NIGHTS FOR CANCER PATIENTS STAYING AT CLARA'S HOUSE MADE UP 58% OF ALL ROOM NIGHTS PROVIDED. THANKS TO THE GENEROUS PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH, CLARA'S HOUSE PROVIDED 979 NIGHTS TO MORE THAN 240 CANCER PATIENTS AT NO CHARGE, EQUATING TO AN APPROXIMATE VALUE OF $186,010 IN ACCOMMODATIONS. MANY PATIENTS AND THEIR CAREGIVER(S) STAYED FOR UP TO 6 WEEKS DURING TREATMENT REGIMENS, WHICH REQUIRED STAFF TO STEP INTO A MORE REFINED SKILL SET TO ACCOMPANY FOLKS THROUGH THIS VARIED AND OFTEN ARDUOUS PORTION OF THEIR MEDICAL AND HEALING JOURNEY. THERE WERE 25 VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVED THE GUESTS IN CLARA'S HOUSE AND 25 VOLUNTEERS WHO MAINTAINED THE HEALING GARDENS. THESE VOLUNTEERS PROVIDED 1,671HOURS OF SERVICE IN 2025, AT A VALUE OF $58,100. THE HOUSE VOLUNTEERS PROVIDED MEALS AND SNACKS FOR GUESTS, ADDRESSED THEIR ON-GOING NEEDS, AND ASSISTED WITH DAILY HOUSE NEEDS. WITH MANY OF THE GUESTS NOT HAVING TRANSPORTATION AVAILABILITY, THESE EFFORTS PROVIDED DAILY INTERACTIONS AND COMMUNICATION ESSENTIAL TO THE HEALING PROCESS. FROM THE OVERALL LODGING STANDPOINT, 905 GUESTS STAYED A TOTAL OF 1,675 ROOM NIGHTS, WITH 466 OF THOSE GUESTS BEING FIRST TIME VISITORS. GUESTS TRAVELED A MEAN DISTANCE OF 83 MILES AND STAYED AN AVERAGE OF 2.0 NIGHTS. TOP DIAGNOSTIC GROUPS REMAINED ONCOLOGY, ORTHOPEDIC AND HEART PATIENTS, WITH THE TOP THREE COUNTIES BEING SERVED FROM CUMBERLAND, ROBESON AND RICHMOND. OVER 108 OF THOSE NIGHTS WERE DEDICATED TO PROVIDER RECRUITMENT, RETENTION AND THOSE IN SERVICE TO FIRSTHEALTH. CLARA'S HOUSE REMAINED A CENTRAL HUB FOR COMMUNITY NAVIGATION, OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY, HOSTING 11 DIFFERENT SUPPORT GROUPS. OVER 1,612 VISITS HAD BEEN MADE TO PARKINSON'S, DEMENTIA, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, STROKE RECOVERY AND CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE GROUPS. MUSIC AND ART THERAPY, AS WELL AS CENTERING PRAYER AND BOOK CLUB, WERE STILL GOING STRONG AFTER BEING IN SERVICE MORE THAN A DECADE FROM THIS LOCATION. ADDITIONALLY, THREE FIRSTHEALTH DEPARTMENTS OPERATED OUT OF CLARA'S HOUSE, INCLUDING FIRSTFUTURES AND TELEHEALTH SERVICES. CLARA'S HOUSE HOSTED 584 MEETINGS IN SHADOWLAWN AND THE HOUSE AT LARGE, IN SUPPORT OF THE SPACE NEEDS ON THE FIRSTHEALTH MOORE REGIONAL HOSPITAL CAMPUS.

  Expenses $11,777,136 · Grants $10,790,692

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $18,176,230

  Expenses

  $12,869,997

  Contributions

  $10,553,251

  Grants paid

  $10,790,692

• 2023

  Revenue

  $11,551,900

  Expenses

  $12,350,253

  Contributions

  $8,549,355

  Grants paid

  $10,483,085

• 2022

  Revenue

  $10,335,371

  Expenses

  $13,821,102

  Contributions

  $5,803,369

  Grants paid

  $11,828,285

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,308,548

  Expenses

  $7,961,615

  Assets (EOY)

  $84,024,548

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,255,156

  Expenses

  $7,482,344

  Assets (EOY)

  $97,006,378

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,118,535

  Expenses

  $3,905,336

  Assets (EOY)

  $82,841,471

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,236,439

  Expenses

  $5,086,864

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,657,579

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,385,235

  Expenses

  $3,839,886

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,667,828

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,717,202

  Expenses

  $4,642,210

  Assets (EOY)

  $76,720,894

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,931,692

  Expenses

  $3,399,112

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,770,873

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,850,361

  Expenses

  $4,207,971

  Assets (EOY)

  $67,002,420

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,533,766

  Expenses

  $4,199,532

  Assets (EOY)

  $68,069,839

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $4,486,370

  Assets (EOY)

  $64,763,409

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC

  $11,828,285

  2022 · MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE SERVICES

• FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS

  $10,790,692

  2024 · MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE SERVICES

• FIRSTHEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC

  $10,483,085

  2023 · MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE SERVICES

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Grants received

• FIRST HEALTH OF THE CAROLINAS INC

  $2,000,000

  2024 · FIRSTFUTURES PROGRAM

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $500,000

  2023 · MEDICAL / PUBLIC SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $500,000

  2024 · MEDICAL / PUBLIC SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $250,000

  2022 · MEDICAL

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $103,850

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• PROMEDICA FOUNDATION

  $87,500

  2022 · OPERATING GRANT

• PROMEDICA HEALTH SYSTEM INC

  $87,500

  2022 · SUPPORT OPERATIONS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $79,050

  2024 · HEALTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $73,300

  2023 · HEALTH

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $70,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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