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· Public charity

Christus Spohn Health System Corporation

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$371k
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$9.4MHousing & Shelter$520kEducation$35kRecreation & Sports$29kCommunity Improvement$19kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $411,025, the rows itemized in this filing. The $423,521 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,496 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $371k
$371,025
Median grant
1
States reached
$817M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTUS Spohn Healthy System Development Foundation$371,025
American Heart Association$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES: $20k → 17%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 6 repeat orgs$561k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$9.5M
$561k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+85%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue +33%
  • LC
    LULAC COUNCIL 1 FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • SS
    STARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • DO
    Diocese of Corpus Christi
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • CC
    CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -21%
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
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
Christus Health

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health
2
Texas Chapter of the American College of Cardiology

The purpose of the texas chapter of the american college of cardiology is to contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, to ensure optimal quality of care for individuals with such diseases, and to foster the highest…

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3
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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4
Christus Continuing Care

The corporation's mission shall be to extend the healing ministry of jesus christ, and consistent therewith, shall operate according to the doctrines, resolutions, decrees and ethical principles of christus health, and the ethical and…

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5
Christus St Michael Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring…

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6
Christus Health Foundation

To promote philanthropy and charitable giving and to provide resources to enhance the ability of christus health and related entities in the mission of extending the healing ministry of jesus christ.

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7
Christus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier

The primary purpose of christus foundation shreveport-bossier is to promote philanthropy and charitable giving to provide resources to enhance the ability of christus health northern louisiana in its mission of extending the healing…

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8
St Luke's 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
9
Christus St Vincent Medical Group

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational and religious purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations which…

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10
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…

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11
Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation

The objectives of friends of santa rosa foundation are to assist, benefit, and support santa rosa health care corporation in providing health care services for residents of san antonio and south texas by raising money to support the…

Health
12
Travis County Medical Society

Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christus Spohn Health System Development Fnd; the most unlike its peers is Lulac Council 1 Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Christus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND: $9,167,746 · HealthChristus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND+2 more: $253,000 · HealthDiocese of Corpus Christi: $500,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI: $19,000 · Other+3 more: $22,425 · OtherLULAC COUNCIL 1 FOUNDATION INC: $20,446 · EducationSTARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 · EducationCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CORPUS CHRISTI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,000 · Community Improvement
Health$9,420,746Other$541,425Education$35,446Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND: $9,167,746 over 9y, 30% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $207,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLULAC COUNCIL 1 FOUNDATION INC: $20,446 over 2y, 14% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED CORPUS CHRISTI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHALO FLIGHT INC: $7,000 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Christus Spohn Health System Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christus Spohn Health System Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    2report 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 12 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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