About Shands Jacksonville Medical Center
As an academic health center, our four-part mission is to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover. We provide quality patient care, serve as a health care safety net and champion the elimination of health disparities, train future health care professionals, and lead clinical trials and research programs.
Focus Areas
Clinical care (hospital services)Trauma and emergency medicineCancer care and proton therapyStroke and neurological careOrthopaedics and sports medicineClinical research and trialsMedical education and trainingCommunity health and safety-net services
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating supportflexible funding
About Shands Jacksonville Medical Center
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Inc directs its giving around an academic health center mission: to heal, comfort, educate, and discover. That mission shows up in grants that support patient care, health professional training, clinical trials, and safety-net services, with every recent grant going to recipients in Jacksonville, Florida. Two large general-support grants stand out in the recent record: $43,556,719 to University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians Inc in 2024 and $42,113,827 to Univeristy of Florida Jacksonville Physicians Inc in 2023. Smaller grants also support related institutions such as Wolfson Children's Hospital and the Shands Jacksonville Foundation. The foundation’s work aligns closely with its stated focus areas in clinical care, trauma and emergency medicine, cancer care and proton therapy, stroke and neurological care, orthopaedics and sports medicine, clinical research and trials, medical education and training, and community health and safety-net services. It also funds internal training programs, including fellowships and residencies in trauma and medical psychology, rehabilitation, pharmacy, medical laboratory science, and administrative leadership.
What Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Funds
Medical education and workforce development are central to the foundation’s funding. It supports a Trauma & Medical Psychology Fellowship in Jacksonville, a Rehabilitation Residency & Fellowship Programs initiative, and Pharmacy Residency Programs (PGY-1 and PGY-2), each tied to supervised training. The grant record also includes a School of Medical Laboratory Science Program, which provides a one-year certificate for students with a bachelor’s degree in relevant sciences. Its mission-driven clinical focus extends into patient-facing care and institutional support. Wolfson Children's Hospital received general-support grants in both 2023 and 2024, indicating continued backing for pediatric care in the local health system. General support also went to Shands Jacksonville Foundation, showing that the funder uses unrestricted funding alongside program-specific training support. Administrative leadership development appears as another funding lane through an Administrative Fellowship Program for masters-level professionals entering healthcare leadership.
How Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$111M
Total Assets
$1.3B
Total Revenue
$1.3B
Total Expenses
$1.2B
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $242K and $31.7M, with a median of $612K.
25th Percentile
$242K
Median
$612K
75th Percentile
$31.7M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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