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Centene Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $775k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+52 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JWCH INSTITUTE INC | $2,912,778 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC | $2,300,000 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA | $2,250,000 |
| SAFER FOUNDATION | $1,631,961 |
| CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE | $1,500,000 |
| CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES | $1,150,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS INC | $1,000,000 |
| ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION | $1,000,000 |
| HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION OF NEBRASKA | $1,000,000 |
| VISION Y COMPROMISO | $1,000,000 |
| MISSOURI COALITION FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE | $1,000,000 |
| LOVE ONE LOUISIANA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| KAWEAH DELTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Centene Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
298 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 230 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +16%- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2020–2025 · $7.7M · revenue +55%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES4× · 2020–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BDBI-STATE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -95%
- WCWilliam Carey Universitygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
- OCOAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INCone grant, 2024 · $750k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
511 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 511 of the 584 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds JWCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Clayton Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Centene Foundation for Quality Healthcare ↗
- Who funds BI-STATE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MINORITY QUALITY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pershing Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Centene Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- National Association of Community Health Centers Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- United Home Care Services Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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