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Benedictine Foundation

The BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION (formerly benedictine health system foundation) was established to coordinate, encourage, motivate and support the fund development activity effort within benedictine health system and its supported organizations.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$560k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$17MHealth$7.2MCrime & Legal$11k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$69,005
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CERENITY CARE CENTER - WHITE BEAR LAKE$559,675
BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INC$511,631
VILLA ST VINCENT$328,797
ST GERTRUDE'S HEALTH CENTER$275,558
MADONNA TOWERS OF ROCHESTER$109,288
CITY OF LAKES CARE CENTER$83,344
BRIDGES CARE CENTER$72,984
BENEDICTINE CARE CENTERS$69,005
CERENITY SENIOR CARE$48,908
BENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTER$44,761
BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES - BISMARCK INC$20,956
CATHOLIC RESIDENTIAL SERVICES$16,058
BENEDICTINE HEALTH SYSTEM$13,212
SAINT ANNE OF WINONA$12,067
REGINA SENIOR LIVING$10,885
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $323k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $129k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $346k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $93k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $89k → 7%BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY - OWATONNA: $82k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $53k → 7%ELLENDALE EVERGREEN PLACE INC: $48k → 7%BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY - OWATONNA: $35k → 7%EVERGREEN PLACE: $19k → 7%CATHOLIC RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $16k → 7%BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY - OWATONNA: $13k → 7%SAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $12k → 7%BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY - OWATONNA: $8k → 7%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.
$24M · 23 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$24M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+32%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BL
    BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +30%
  • CS
    CERENITY SENIOR CARE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $3.5M · revenue +17%
  • VS
    VILLA ST VINCENT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROSEWOOD COURT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +40%
  • BL
    BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY OF WAHPETON DBA SIENA COURT ASSISTED LIVING COMMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • MM
    MADONNA MEADOWS OF ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +32%
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
Benedictine Senior Living Community of St Peter Dba Benedictine Court

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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2
Assumption Home Inc

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

Human Services
3
Benedictine Foundation

The benedictine foundation (formerly benedictine health system foundation) was established to coordinate, encourage, motivate and support the fund development activity effort within benedictine health system and its supported organizations.

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4
Assumption Community Services Inc

We provide our residents with a dynamic continuum of care encompassing the social, spiritual, physical and mental aspects of the individual, steepen in the benedictine values of hospitality, stewardship, respect and jusstice. our vision is…

Human Services
5
Saint Therese Communities

Saint therese is a nonprofit catholic senior living community born out of a simple mission: do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

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6
Missionary Sisters of St Benedict Home for the Age

To provide a religious & spiritual haven for its residents to live their lives on earth in peace and tranquility while being treated with the utmost dignity and compassion by fellow followers of the catholic faith

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7
Sisters of Mary of the Presentation Long Term Care

SMP Health - Long Term Care, inspired by the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation, serves those in our care with respect and compassion as we strive to fulfill the healing mission of Jesus.

Health
8
Bethel Home Inc

Bethel home is part of a family of healthcare and residential service organizations committed to providing quality care and life-enriching opportunities to the aging and those in need in a caring, christian environment.

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9
Mercy Ridge Inc

Mercy ridge is a continuing care retirement facility that provides 408 living apartments, 35 assisted living units and 12 dementia units.

Housing & Shelter
10
Bethesda Home Inc

A christian home of health, healing, heart and hope.

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11
The Assumption Village

The Assumption Village extends the healing ministry of Jesus by improving the health of our communities with emphasis on people who are poor and underserved.

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12
Essentia Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benedictine Living Community - Owatonna; the most unlike its peers is Arrowhead Senior Living Community. 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

27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAZARETH LIVING CENTER: $3,663,356 · HealthNAZARETH LIVING CENTERCERENITY SENIOR CARE: $3,477,896 · HealthCERENITY SENIOR CAREVILLA ST VINCENT: $2,921,931 · HealthVILLA ST VINCENTCERENITY CARE CENTER - WHITE BEAR LAKE: $2,329,523 · HealthCERENITY CARE CENTER - WHITE BEAR LAKEARROWHEAD SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $857,415 · HealthARROWHEAD SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY+3 more: $785,259 · Health+3 moreBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INC: $4,011,751 · OtherBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INCBENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTER: $1,523,436 · OtherBENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTERMADONNA TOWERS OF ROCHESTER INC: $657,292 · OtherMADONNA TOWERS OF ROCHESTER INCST GERTRUDE'S HEALTH CENTER: $397,574 · OtherST GERTRUDE'S HEALTH CENTERBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES - BISMARCK INC DBA ST GABRIELS COMMUNITY: $339,775 · Other+7 more: $522,158 · Other+7 moreBRIDGES CARE CENTER: $724,936 · Housing & ShelterVILLA ST BENEDICT: $543,250 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,707 · Housing & ShelterSAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $1,044,369 · Human ServicesSTEEPLE POINTE SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $138,592 · Human ServicesELLENDALE EVERGREEN PLACE INC: $67,422 · Human Services+1 more: $16,058 · Human Services
Health$14,035,380Other$7,451,986Housing & Shelter$1,278,893Human Services$1,266,441

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 budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INC: $4,011,751 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNAZARETH LIVING CENTER: $3,663,356 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetCERENITY SENIOR CARE: $3,477,896 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetVILLA ST VINCENT: $2,921,931 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetCERENITY CARE CENTER - WHITE BEAR LAKE: $2,329,523 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetBENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTER: $1,523,436 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT ANNE OF WINONA: $1,044,369 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetARROWHEAD SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $857,415 over 4y, 76% of budgetBRIDGES CARE CENTER: $724,936 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetMADONNA TOWERS OF ROCHESTER INC: $657,292 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetVILLA ST BENEDICT: $543,250 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBENEDICTINE CARE CENTERS: $433,982 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetST GERTRUDE'S HEALTH CENTER: $397,574 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES - BISMARCK INC DBA ST GABRIELS COMMUNITY: $339,775 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCITY OF LAKES CARE CENTER D/B/A BENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTER OF MPLS: $238,565 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY OF ST PETER: $151,046 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSTEEPLE POINTE SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $138,592 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY - OWATONNA: $135,794 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBENEDICTINE HEALTH SYSTEM: $112,712 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY OF WINSTED: $105,173 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLIVING COMMUNITY OF ST JOSEPH: $79,819 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetELLENDALE EVERGREEN PLACE INC: $67,422 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCATHOLIC RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC DBA BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES OF WI: $16,058 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSEWOOD COURT INC: $10,707 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY OF WAHPETON DBA SIENA COURT ASSISTED LIVING COMM: $9,853 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMADONNA MEADOWS OF ROCHESTER: $5,738 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Benedictine Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Benedictine Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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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