Missouri · Public charity
Ascension Foundation
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care, which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a…
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $632,015
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $97M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Ascension Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.4M | 88% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.6M | 65% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.2M | 77% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $940k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meharry Medical College | $1,415,731 | 4 | 0% |
| Wayne State University | $1,296,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Marian Middle School | $317,839 | 3 | 4% |
| Fathers of St Edmund Southern Missions Inc | $270,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Posada Home Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Alexian Brothers Health System | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mamatoto Village Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Renewal House Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 38 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Ascension Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ascension Health Alliance · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Baptist Community Ministries · WK Kellogg Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Ascension Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Ascension Foundation
- How much does Ascension Foundation give?
- Ascension Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $2,075,224 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Ascension Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (31%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Ascension Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Meharry Medical College ($1.4M), Wayne State University ($1.3M), Marian Middle School ($318k).
- Does Ascension Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ascension Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascension Health Alliance, Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc, Baptist Community Ministries.
- Where is Ascension Foundation based?
- Ascension Foundation is based in MO.
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