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Columbia St Mary's Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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.

Philanthropy$2.0MHousing & Shelter$838kEducation$525kHealth$501kHuman Services$58kEmployment$40kCommunity Improvement$8kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $43,650, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,950 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.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$230M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHA FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$18,650
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRISM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 7 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$3.5M
$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman 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

  • AW
    ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $144k · revenue +63%
  • OA
    OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $49k · revenue +2%
  • EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $34k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +40%
  • HY
    HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • PRISM Economic Development Corporation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -44%
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
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
2
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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3
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
4
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
5
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
6
Ministry Health Care Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
7
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
8
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…

Health
9
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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10
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…

Health
11
Ascension Se Wisconsin Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
12
Wheaton Franciscan - Elmbrook Memorial Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Prism Economic Development Corporation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $2,818,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INCCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $144,135 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100,000 · PhilanthropyADRC OF RACINE COUNTY: $206,000 · OtherADRC OF R…OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC: $49,000 · OtherOSHKOSH A…THE WHA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE WHA F…HISPANIC HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE OF TX LLC: $15,150 · Other+5 more: $29,932 · Other+5 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $250,000 · EducationINROADS INC: $15,000 · EducationMarquette University: $10,000 · EducationPRISM Economic Development Corporation: $50,000 · Human ServicesEMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC: $34,000 · EmploymentONEIDA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$3,312,635Other$325,082Education$275,000Human Services$50,000Employment$34,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $2,818,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $144,135 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPRISM Economic Development Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC: $49,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINROADS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarquette University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEIDA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $7,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,602 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC: $5,413 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetASCENSION ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,328 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

Baird Foundation IncGreater Green Bay Com…Herbert H Kohl Charit…AbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI16× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Columbia St Mary's Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbia St Mary's Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Columbia St Mary's Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Columbia St Mary's Inc 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 19 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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