Missouri · Public charity
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 which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a…
- $908k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $825k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $46,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $531,354
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $206M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Ascension Providence funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 9 | $825k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $802k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $886k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $827k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $159k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $2.0M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $683k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $347k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Providence Foundation | $2,229,888 | 6 | 45% |
| McLennan Area Clinical Services Inc | $1,194,000 | 1 | 64% |
| Heart of Texas Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center | $672,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Waco Chamber of Commerce Community Dev | $423,092 | 6 | 32% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $354,706 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $210,690 | 5 | 0% |
| Rwanda Shines | $185,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative | $150,000 | 4 | 5% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society | $113,794 | 3 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Ascension Providence supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Cooper Foundation · Waco Foundation · Baylor University · Bowen Family Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Magnolia Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Clifton Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ascension Providence
- How much does Ascension Providence give?
- Ascension Providence reported 9 itemized grants totaling $825,454, out of $907,771 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ascension Providence fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (78%), Community Improvement (10%), International (3%).
- Who are Ascension Providence's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ascension Providence Foundation ($2.2M), McLennan Area Clinical Services Inc ($1.2M), Heart of Texas Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center ($672k).
- Does Ascension Providence fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ascension Providence?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooper Foundation, Waco Foundation, Baylor University.
- Where is Ascension Providence based?
- Ascension Providence is based in MO.
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