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Ascension Ministry & Mission Fund

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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
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$4.6M
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,970,894
Median grant
1
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ascension Foundation$2,970,894
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Jane Phillips Memorial Medical Center: $6k → 14%Regional Medical Laboratories Inc: $7k → 15%St Vincent Medical Group Inc: $230k → 16%St Agnes Healthcare Inc: $50k → 19%OMNI Medical Group Inc: $13k → 15%St John Physicians Inc: $10k → 15%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time
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 Alliance
    5× · 2018–2022 · $676k · revenue +40%
  • SV
    St Vincent Medical Group Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $317k · revenue +42%
  • AH
    Ascension Health
    2× · 2020–2021 · $52k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH GENESYS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue -34%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +24%
  • AD
    ASCENSION DEPAUL SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -20%
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.

1
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
2
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
3
St Vincent's Medical 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…

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4
Saint Thomas Health

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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Ascension Providence

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
St Vincent Madison County Health System 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
10
Ascension Borgess 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
11
St Vincent Seton Specialty 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
12
Ascension Seton

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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Agnes Healthcare Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ascension Foundation: $2,970,894 · OtherAscension FoundationAscension Health Alliance: $676,164 · OtherAscension Health AllianceSt Vincent Medical Group Inc: $317,436 · OtherSt Vincent Medical Group IncAscension Health-IS Inc: $177,210 · Other+5 more: $85,248 · OtherHENRY FORD HEALTH GENESYS FOUNDATION: $104,842 · HealthSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $70,376 · HealthAscension Health: $51,752 · HealthSt Agnes Healthcare Inc: $50,000 · HealthSt John Medical Center Inc: $38,047 · HealthST AGNES FOUNDATION INC: $14,354 · Health+2 more: $14,529 · Health
Other$4,226,952Health$343,900

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAscension Foundation: $2,970,894 over 1y, 33% of budgetAscension Health Alliance: $676,164 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent Medical Group Inc: $317,436 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAscension Health-IS Inc: $177,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH GENESYS FOUNDATION: $104,842 over 1y, 12% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $70,376 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAscension Health: $51,752 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION DEPAUL SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Agnes Healthcare Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John Medical Center Inc: $38,047 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST AGNES FOUNDATION INC: $14,354 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSacred Heart Health System Inc: $8,825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJane Phillips Memorial Medical Center Inc: $5,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center-Clay County Inc: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

St John Health System…Ascension Health Alli…American Cancer Socie…Reach Out and Read IncAmazonsmile Foundation
St John Health System Foundation IncMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St John Health System Foundation Inc · Ascension Health Alliance · American Cancer Society Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ministry & Mission Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension Ministry & Mission Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ascension Ministry & Mission Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Ascension Ministry & Mission Fund 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 17 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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