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Ascension St Elizabeth Foundation 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.

$37k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$16k
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 2023.

Health$6.2MPublic Benefit$65kPhilanthropy$37kCrime & Legal$22kEmployment$13kRecreation & Sports$7k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,323, the rows itemized in this filing. The $37,323 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,000 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$9,021
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC$16,017
COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC$9,021
ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC$5,285
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASCENSION HEALTH AT HOME LLC: $14k → 11%ASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC: $1.0M → 6%Ascension Calumet Hospital Inc: $1.0M → 7%Ascension Medical Group-Northern Wisconsin Inc: $6k → 10%COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $20k → 17%ASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC: $1.0M → 6%ST ELIZABETH HOSPITAL INC: $186k → 7%COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $8k → 17%ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $484k → 6%NETWORK HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $49k → 7%ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $458k → 6%CITY OF APPLETON: $22k → 7%ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $240k → 6%SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER - FOX CITIES INC: $11k → 7%ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP - FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $80k → 6%SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER FOX CITIES INC: $11k → 7%UNITED WAY FOX CITIES: $37k → 6%HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $7k → 7%UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $35k → 6%HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $7k → 7%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $7k → 6%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 10 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$6.3M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-29%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • AC
    ASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.2M · revenue +6%
  • AN
    ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +95%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $72k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AH
    ASCENSION HEALTH AT HOME LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
  • AW
    ASCENSION WISCONSIN PHARMACY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -29%
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
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
Ascension Se Wisconsin 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
2
Ascension St Francis 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
3
Ministry Health Care 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
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
5
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin 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 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
7
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee 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
8
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin 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…

—
9
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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10
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
11
Ascension Medical Group Promed

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
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Ozaukee 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Medical Group-Fox Valley Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC: $3,183,636 · OtherASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC+5 more: $114,588 · OtherASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $2,252,807 · HealthASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INCASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $426,012 · HealthASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INCCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $235,826 · HealthCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC+4 more: $89,781 · HealthUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $71,500 · PhilanthropyHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $13,400 · Employment
Other$3,298,224Health$3,004,426Philanthropy$71,500Employment$13,400

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 CALUMET HOSPITAL INC: $3,183,636 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $2,252,807 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $426,012 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $235,826 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $71,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $51,619 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION INC: $24,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER - FOX CITIES INC: $22,400 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $13,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN PHARMACY INC: $8,162 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPIRUS MEDICAL GROUP - NORTHERN WISCONSIN INC: $6,000 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.

Mercy Health Foundati…Community Foundation …J J Keller Foundation…Capital Credit UnionBasic Needs Giving Pa…United Way Fox Cities…The Clarence Wallace …The Boldt Family Fund…Reach Out and Read IncThrivent Financial fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Mercy Health Foundation IncMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mercy Health Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Capital Credit Union · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 St Elizabeth Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension St Elizabeth Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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