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Chi Health Foundation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
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 2025.

Health$19MHuman Services$262k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $465k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
$386,487
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER$1,773,286
ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM$552,268
ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH$472,152
MERCY HOSPITAL OF VALLEY CITY$386,487
CARRINGTON HEALTH CENTER$223,904
LISBON AREA HEALTH SERVICES$164,714
OAKES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$76,457
ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC$26,979
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $1.8M → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-MEMORIAL HOSPITAL SCHUYLER: $88k → 9%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $3.3M → 12%UNITY FAMILY HEALTHCARE: $333k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $272k → 10%ST FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER: $187k → 10%LAKEWOOD HEALTH CENTER: $243k → 11%CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE: $262k → 8%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $552k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $862k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $472k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $676k → 12%MERCY HOSPITAL OF VALLEY CITY: $386k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $617k → 12%CARRINGTON HEALTH CENTER: $224k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $312k → 12%LISBON AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $165k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $285k → 12%OAKES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $76k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $264k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $27k → 11%ALEGENT HEALTH-BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $189k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $587k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $574k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $1.0M → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $471k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $874k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $336k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $699k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $326k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $534k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $319k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $475k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $216k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $446k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $197k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $413k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $28k → 12%ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $123k → 12%ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $23k → 12%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 4 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$17M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $852k went to new ones.

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

  • AH
    ALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +15%
  • AH
    ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +11%
  • AC
    ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $78k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNITY FAMILY HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $333k · revenue +18%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $272k · revenue +1%
  • CN
    CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE
    one grant, 2022 · $262k · revenue 0%
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
St Joseph's Hospital & Health Center

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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2
Mercy Medical Center

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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3
Alegent Health-Community Memorial Hospital of Missouri Valley Iowa

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
4
Mercy Hospital of Devils Lake

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
5
Alegent Health-Mercy Hospital Corning Ia

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
6
St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
7
St Luke's Health System Corporation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
8
Highline Medical Center

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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9
Chi St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs (Fka Mercy Hospital Hot Springs)

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
10
Catholic Health Initiatives National Foundation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
11
Commonspirit Health Research Institute

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
12
Chi Living Communities

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lisbon Area Health Services; the most unlike its peers is Alegent Creighton Clinic. 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

14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $7,021,931 · HealthALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEMALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,360,080 · HealthALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTERALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $3,498,686 · HealthALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH+8 more: $1,631,410 · Health+8 moreUNITY FAMILY HEALTHCARE: $333,002 · OtherCHI NATIONAL HOME CARE: $261,950 · OtherALEGENT HEALTH-MEMORIAL HOSPITAL SCHUYLER: $88,133 · Other
Health$18,512,107Other$683,085

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $7,021,931 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,360,080 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $3,498,686 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL OF VALLEY CITY: $386,487 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITY FAMILY HEALTHCARE: $333,002 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $272,304 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHI NATIONAL HOME CARE: $261,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD HEALTH CENTER: $242,576 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCARRINGTON HEALTH CENTER: $223,904 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER: $186,784 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLISBON AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $164,714 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $78,184 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $76,457 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

American Heart Associ…Commonspirit HealthAmazonsmile Foundation
American Heart Association IncTX22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Commonspirit Health · 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 Chi Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chi Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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
    11report 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 14 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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