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Ascension St Mary's Hospital

Creating healthy communities - together

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$671k
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 2024.

Health$2.8MCommunity Improvement$132kEducation$91kEnvironment$30kPhilanthropy$23kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $720,836, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,419,073 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $698,237 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $671k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$119M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION ST MARY'S FOUNDATION$670,836
MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE INC$25,000
SAGINAW FUTURE CAMPAIGN$15,000
MICHIGAN FORENSIC EXAMINERS$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%BAYSAIL: $30k → 14%Field Neurosciences Institute: $393k → 18%DELTA COLLEGE: $91k → 14%SAGINAW COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 18%Saginaw Future: $17k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 18%MOBILE MEDICAL RESPONSE INC: $15k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 18%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $15k → 18%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $14k → 18%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $14k → 18%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $13k → 18%PRIDE IN SAGINAW INC: $7k → 18%MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $21k → 18%SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17k → 18%SAGINAW FUTURE INC: $17k → 18%SAGINAW FUTURE INC: $17k → 18%SAGINAW FUTURE INC: $17k → 18%SAGINAW FUTURE INC: $17k → 18%SAGINAW FUTURE CAMPAIGN: $15k → 18%SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $7k → 18%SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%MICHIGAN FORENSIC EXAMINERS: $10k → 18%FIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE: $8k → 18%FIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE: $6k → 18%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 7 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$2.9M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MM
    MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW FOUNDA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue -60% · 38% of their budget
  • FN
    FIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $406k · revenue -16% · 48% of their budget
  • MH
    MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $146k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • DC
    DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue +143%
  • BS
    BAY SAIL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -91%
  • MM
    Mobile Medical Response Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +64%
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
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
2
Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals Inc Dba/Cmu Medical Education Partners

The purpose of the corporation is to integrate medical education, research, and professional services for the training of medical learners (residents, students, and healthcare personnel).

Health
3
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
4
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
5
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Sault

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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8
Mymichigan Medical Center Alpena

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Munising Memorial Hospital Association

The Mission of Munising Memorial Hospital is to be the provider of choice for primary medical care and hospital care for the residents of Alger County, with unsurpassed personal and professional intergrity. Our employees and practitioners…

Health
10
Mymichigan Medical Center Tawas

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Mymichigan Medical Center Standish

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Mackinac Straits Health System Inc

Providing quality healthcare to the families and communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Future Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bay Sail 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

13 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW FOUNDA: $2,182,688 · HealthMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW FOUNDAFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE: $406,272 · HealthFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTEMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $145,500 · Health+3 more: $81,000 · HealthSAGINAW FUTURE INC: $97,500 · EducationDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $90,514 · EducationSAGINAW COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $27,950 · OtherSAGINAW COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $24,035 · OtherSaginaw Community Foundation: $30,800 · PhilanthropyBAY SAIL INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalPRIDE IN SAGINAW INC: $6,750 · Community Improvement
Health$2,815,460Education$188,014Other$51,985Philanthropy$30,800Crime & Legal$30,000Community Improvement$6,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW FOUNDA: $2,182,688 over 3y, 38% of budgetFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE: $406,272 over 3y, 48% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $145,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSAGINAW FUTURE INC: $97,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $56,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $30,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBAY SAIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSAGINAW COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $24,035 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMobile Medical Response Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN FORENSIC EXAMINERS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPRIDE IN SAGINAW INC: $6,750 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

Allen E & Marie A Nic…Wickson-Link Memorial…Frances Goll Mills Fu…Morley FoundationBierlein Companies Fo…Bay Area Community Fo…Dow Company FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial FoundationMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frances Goll Mills Fund · Morley Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · 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 St Mary's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension St Mary's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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