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Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, Banner Health Foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient services, and a variety of community benefits.

$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20M
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$130MEducation$301kHuman Services$257k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $24,187,458, the rows itemized in this filing. The $32,502,004 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,314,546 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

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
  • $250k+3 grants · $24M
$1,978,142
Median grant
1
States reached
$187M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANNER HEALTH$20,004,056
Banner Medical Group$2,015,031
Banner University Medical Group$1,978,142
Wyoming Medical Center$98,847
University of Arizona Foundation$91,382
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $176k → 11%SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $41k → 11%SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131M · 6 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$131M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+80%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BH
    Banner Health
    8× · 2017–2024 · $106M · revenue +68%
  • BM
    Banner Medical Group
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +46%
  • B-
    Banner -University Medical Group
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AA
    ARIZONA ASTHMA COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $95k · revenue +80%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +20%
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
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health
2
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
3
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
4
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
5
Coastal Medical Physicians Inc

CMPI was organized to provide accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based and innovative care to serve the health needs of the communities in Rhode Island and elsewhere.

Health
6
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
7
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
8
Americas Physician Groups

APGs mission is to assist accountable physician groups to improve the quality and value of healthcare provided to patients. APG represents and supports physician groups that assume responsibility for clinically integrated, comprehensive,…

Community Improvement
9
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
10
Bronson Methodist Hospital

Together, we advance the health of our communities

Health
11
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Banner Medical Group; the most unlike its peers is Arizona Asthma Coalition. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Banner Health: $106,294,006 · HealthBanner HealthBanner Medical Group: $15,672,235 · HealthBanner Medical GroupBanner -University Medical Group: $7,968,819 · HealthBanner -University Medical Group+3 more: $231,159 · HealthUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $301,016 · EducationRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $256,635 · Human ServicesAMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY: $7,500 · Other
Health$130,166,219Education$301,016Human Services$256,635Other$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBanner Health: $106,294,006 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBanner Medical Group: $15,672,235 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBanner -University Medical Group: $7,968,819 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $301,016 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $256,635 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWYOMING MEDICAL CENTER INC: $98,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Medical Group Colorado: $37,312 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Banner Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Banner Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 9 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.

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