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Ascension Health Alliance

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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$213MInternational$12MReligion$9.4MPhilanthropy$4.6MHuman Services$2.0MHousing & Shelter$870kEducation$466kCrime & Legal$350kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $282k
  • $250k+5 grants · $8.2M
$408,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$22.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ascension Health Global Mission$3,500,000
ASCENSION HEALTH (DISPENSARY OF HOPE)$2,685,967
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC$1,117,394
HEALTHY WOMAN WOMENS CLINICS OF FLORIDA$500,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$408,000
National Merit Scholarship Corporation$131,553
Rural Parish Clinic$100,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO$50,000
DePaul USA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $707k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Circle the City: $50k → 11%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $40k → 23%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $50k → 13%Early Learning Community Center Fox Valley: $10k → 7%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $50k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $50k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $10k → 7%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $50k → 16%Society of St Vincent DePaul: $54k → 11%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $20k → 11%Covenant House Missouri: $25k → 21%Covenant House Missouri: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $13k → 21%Council on Aging of Middle Tennesee: $10k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $200k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%BLUES FOR KIDS: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Ascension Health Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ascension Health Alliancelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137M · 44 repeat orgs$101M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
87

Total granted

$137M
$101M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

77%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    Ascension Health Global Mission
    7× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +274% · 98% of their budget
  • AH
    Ascension Health
    3× · 2022–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +110%
  • HW
    HEALTHY WOMAN WOMEN'S CLINICS OF FLORIDA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +66% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • PH
    Providence Hospital
    one grant, 2019 · $69M · revenue -94% · 44% of their budget
  • SM
    ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2021 · $24M · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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St Mary's Health Inc

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…

Health
2
Ascension Health Alliance

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,…

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3
St Vincent's Medical Center

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…

Health
4
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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5
Ascension Texas

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…

Health
6
Ascension All Saints Hospital Inc

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…

Health
7
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Saint Thomas West Hospital

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…

Health
9
Gulf Coast Health System

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…

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10
St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc

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…

Health
11
St Vincent Health Inc

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…

Health
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St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Via Christi Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Moross Greenway Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 135 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/109
Grantees still filing
74/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ascension Foundation: $100,599,400 · OtherAscension FoundationAscension Health Global Mission: $9,000,000 · OtherAscension Health Global MissionSETON HERITAGE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000,000 · Other+69 more: $10,053,540 · Other+69 moreProvidence Hospital: $68,830,362 · HealthProvidence HospitalST MARY'S HEALTHCARE: $23,619,165 · HealthST MARY'S HEALTHCAREAscension Health: $5,538,859 · HealthSaint Thomas Health: $5,259,050 · Health+24 more: $3,253,995 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC: $4,470,836 · Philanthropy+7 more: $175,988 · PhilanthropyTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $3,000,000 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $131,553 · Education+7 more: $266,000 · EducationGlobal Solidarity Fund: $2,502,802 · International+2 more: $30,000 · InternationalCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $100,000 · Human ServicesSociety of St Vincent De Paul: $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $73,600 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $53,400 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CITY: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $39,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSING INC: $650,000 · Housing & ShelterDEPAUL USA INC: $45,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$124,652,940Health$106,501,431Philanthropy$4,646,824Education$3,397,553International$2,532,802Human Services$706,500Housing & Shelter$695,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAscension Foundation: $100,599,400 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetProvidence Hospital: $68,830,362 over 1y, 44% of budgetST MARY'S HEALTHCARE: $23,619,165 over 1y, 14% of budgetAscension Health Global Mission: $9,000,000 over 7y, 98% of budgetAscension Health: $5,538,859 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSaint Thomas Health: $5,259,050 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC: $4,470,836 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Solidarity Fund: $2,502,802 over 3y, 43% of budgetHEALTHY WOMAN WOMEN'S CLINICS OF FLORIDA INC: $1,055,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetMERCY HOUSING INC: $650,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $595,726 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $408,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $400,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $340,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt John Health System Inc: $254,289 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNPOWER INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRURAL PARISH CLINIC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $132,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $131,553 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $110,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Bloomington Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSociety of St Vincent De Paul: $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $76,480 over 3y, 14% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $73,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetProvidence Hospital: $70,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION DEPAUL SERVICES: $68,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $55,109 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $53,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC: $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILIES FIGHTING FLU INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRACYS KIDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSaint Thomas Rutherford Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLADIES OF CHARITY OF THE USA: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetASCENSION SETON: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $49,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAscension Ministry & Mission Fund: $48,427 over 2y, 22% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Centene FoundationWorld Wide Technology…St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Raskob Foundation for…Youthbridge Community…Commerce Bancshares F…Edward Jones Foundati…United Way of Greater…Ascension FoundationVatterott FoundationBerges Family Foundat…
Centene FoundationMO31.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Ascension Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Berges Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ascension Health Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension Health Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of West Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ascension Health Alliance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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