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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.

$908k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$531k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$5.1MCommunity Improvement$662kInternational$186kPhilanthropy$100kEducation$87kHousing & Shelter$78kHuman Services$78kAnimals$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $825,454, the rows itemized in this filing. The $907,771 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,317 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $189k
  • $250k+1 grant · $531k
$46,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$206M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION$531,354
WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$70,872
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$67,866
GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$46,250
GREATER WACO SPORTS COMMISSION$25,000
WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$19,500
WACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC$9,112
CARITAS OF WACO$5,500
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA of Central Texas: $12k → 16%Providence Foundation Inc: $9k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $6k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $15k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $9k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Ascension Providence’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ascension Providencelessmore 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 19 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

84%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • AP
    ASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +37% · 45% of their budget
  • WC
    WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY DEV
    6× · 2020–2025 · $423k · revenue +62% · 32% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MA
    McLennan Area Clinical Services Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue 0% · 64% of their budget
  • RS
    RWANDA SHINES
    one grant, 2019 · $186k · revenue +19%
  • WC
    WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $64k · revenue +63%
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
Creative Waco

Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.

Arts & Culture
2
Waco Community Development Corporation Dba Grassroots Community Development

To achieve a brighter future for children, neighbors and communities by inspiring and cultivating healthy neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
3
Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc

Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.

Community Improvement
4
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
5
Washington State Association of County O Officials

To provide support, representation and advocacy for our members with partner agencies.

Crime & Legal
6
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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7
Historic Waco Foundation Inc

To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas

Arts & Culture
8
Waco Civic Theatre

The mission of the waco civic theatre, a non-profit organization, is to provide the heart of texas community with quality live theatre, to create an outlet for community education and participation in all aspects of productions, and to…

Arts & Culture
9
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
10
Travis County Medical Society

Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.

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11
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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12
Wacosa

To provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to work and live in their community.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 38 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $2,229,888 · Human ServicesASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION+4 more: $111,000 · Human ServicesMcLennan Area Clinical Services Inc: $1,194,000 · OtherMcLennan Area Clinical Services IncHEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER: $672,000 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL R…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $113,794 · Other+20 more: $600,047 · Other+20 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $354,706 · HealthAmerican Hea…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $210,690 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $130,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIM…WACO FAMILY PRACTICE FOUNDATION: $48,320 · HealthWACO FAMILY …+1 more: $10,000 · HealthWACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY DEV: $423,092 · Community ImprovementWACO CHAM…GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $150,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER W…RWANDA SHINES: $185,760 · InternationalWACO FOUNDATION: $110,420 · PhilanthropyWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $78,250 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,340,888Other$2,579,841Health$753,716Community Improvement$573,092International$185,760Philanthropy$110,420Housing & Shelter$78,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $2,229,888 over 6y, 45% of budgetMcLennan Area Clinical Services Inc: $1,194,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetWACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY DEV: $423,092 over 6y, 32% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $354,706 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $210,690 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $150,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION: $110,420 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $78,250 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY: $69,696 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWACO FAMILY YMCA: $62,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE PARK INC: $60,397 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $49,112 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWACO FAMILY PRACTICE FOUNDATION: $48,320 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER WACO SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $23,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMCLENNAN COUNTY FAIR INC: $23,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN: $22,510 over 1y, 0.9% of budget100 CLUB OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetREACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $14,572 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $13,120 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Oncology Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF WACO: $9,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetINSPIRACION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetEDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION 12: $8,130 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.

Cooper FoundationWaco FoundationBaylor UniversityBowen Family Foundati…Bernard & Audre Rapop…Hillcrest Baptist Med…United Way of Waco-Mc…Margaret Cb & S Spenc…Magnolia FoundationThe Fentress Foundati…Clifton FoundationMeadows Foundation Inc
Cooper FoundationTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Providence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension Providence. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 38 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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