How much does Ascension Seton give?

Ascension Seton reported 37 itemized grants totaling $7,326,463, out of $8,053,118 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Ascension Seton fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (77%), Community Improvement (6%), Public Benefit (5%).

Who are Ascension Seton's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dell Children's Foundation ($21M), Ascension Seton Foundation ($20M), County of Travis ($8.1M).

Does Ascension Seton fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ascension Seton?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, St David's Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.

Where is Ascension Seton based?

Ascension Seton is based in MO.

Ascension Seton

Ascension Seton at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$8.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3.0M

Largest

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$63MCommunity Improvement$4.6MPublic Benefit$4.2MArts & Culture$2.0MEducation$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.5MReligion$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 37 grants below total $7,326,463, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,053,118 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $726,655 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 $10k7 grants · $56k
$10k–50k15 grants · $305k
$50k–250k9 grants · $893k
$250k+6 grants · $6.1M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$2,962,768
ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION	$1,597,472
ASCENSION SETON WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION	$696,220
ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION	$316,184
HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS	$250,000
INTEGRATED CARE COLLABORATION	$250,000
ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER	$150,000
SAN JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL	$125,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTR	$123,500
TRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION	$121,500
CAPITAL IDEA	$80,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC	$78,500
AMERICAN GATEWAYS	$75,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AUSTIN	$74,350
CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD	$65,289

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$76M · 72 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$76M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+27%

Still filing today

89%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CT
CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
3× · 2020–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +79%
IC
Integrated Care Collaboration
5× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +28% · 73% of their budget
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +170%

Funded once

CC
CAPITAL CITY INNOVATION INCORPORATED
one grant, 2019 · $450k
CC
Catholic Charities Bloomington Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +29% · 35% of their budget
CC
Catholic Charities of Central Texasgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +49%

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.

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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Texas Chapter of the American College of Cardiology

The purpose of the texas chapter of the american college of cardiology is to contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, to ensure optimal quality of care for individuals with such diseases, and to foster the highest…

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Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights

Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

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Texas Academy of Family Physicians

The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.

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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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Children's Hospital Association of Texas

To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.

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Texas Alliance for Patient Access

Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans

Community Improvement

Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Pound House. 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

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 128 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

104/109

Grantees still filing

69/109

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$64,271,482Health$10,448,426Philanthropy$2,915,943Membership Benefit$1,700,000Arts & Culture$726,782Education$724,580Youth Development$688,039

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

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX85.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Applied Materials Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Mfi 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 Seton funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension Seton. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

33report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home