In the sixties and seventies, the major source of funding for CHAG was external donations arranged b y western missionaries who were then the major administrators of the mission health services. The donors provided equipment, vehicles, some infrastructure, drugs and money.

As more and more facilities started being run by Ghanaians the donor component started steadily decreasing. An analysis of the source of funding some Member Institutions in 2002 as shown in the table below indicates that 63% of hospital funding is from user fees, 32% from Government subventions and 5% from donations. In many facilities, the donor component is much lower.

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Besides the Government Subventions, which go mainly to pay the salaries of health staff, a few Government health professionals such as doctors are sent on secondment to CHAG institutions. In recent times, Government also provides some limited funding from its donor-pooled funds to CHAG institutions but these are lower than those provided to government owned facilities. In some regions, refunds for exempted patients and Additional Duty Allowances (ADHA) for health staff are paid by government to CHAG health facilities.