How much does Commonspirit Health give?

Commonspirit Health reported 40 grants totaling $10,736,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Commonspirit Health fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (89%), Crime & Legal (4%), Religion (2%).

Who are Commonspirit Health's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alegent Creighton Health ($8.6M), Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Foundation ($8.3M), Franciscan Foundation ($4.4M).

Does Commonspirit Health fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Commonspirit Health?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc, Dignity Health, Chi Health Foundation.

Where is Commonspirit Health based?

Commonspirit Health is based in AZ.

Commonspirit Health

Commonspirit Health at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Commonspirit Health

As 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.

$11M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

Largest

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$62MCrime & Legal$2.8MReligion$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MEducation$817kHuman Services$291kYouth Development$186kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$50k–250k24 grants · $3.4M
$250k+12 grants · $7.1M

$183,125

Median grant

States reached

$12.1B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH	$1,200,627
CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION	$937,292
FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION	$849,370
DIGNITY HEALTH	$820,134
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER	$620,231
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC	$568,400
DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE	$520,785
SAINT ELIZABETH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	$380,644
ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL	$308,915
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE	$303,000
ST VINCENT FOUNDATION	$288,950
SAMARITAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC	$264,985
SAINT JOSEPH LONDON FOUNDATION INC	$207,703
SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS	$200,000
ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER	$199,304

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$65M · 64 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$65M

$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+23%

Still filing today

94%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman 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

FF
FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +16%
MF
MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA
6× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +42%
DH
DIGNITY HEALTH
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +22%

Funded once

CH
CHI HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +146% · 55% of their budget
SA
SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - NAMPA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $689k · revenue +149%
MH
MERCY HOUSING INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +120%

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.

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

St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center

Health

Highline Medical Center

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St Joseph Services Corporation

Health

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

Health

St Vincent Medical Group

Health

Alegent Health-Community Memorial Hospital of Missouri Valley Iowa

Health

Chi St Vincent Medical Group Hot Springs Fka Mercy Clinic Hot Springs 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 service, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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Madison St Joseph Health Center

Health

St Joseph Foundation of Bryan Texas

To support the hospital and its groundbreaking work. the foundation develops new medical technology, cancer research, and scholarships toward degrees in the medical field.

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Lisbon Area Health Services

Health

Lakewood Health Center

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Hospital of Valley City; the most unlike its peers is Faithful Fools Street Ministry. 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

92 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. 92 of the 103 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/92

Grantees still filing

59/92

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$50,955,812Other$14,183,979Education$2,579,109Philanthropy$1,700,284Housing & Shelter$694,497Community Improvement$110,000Human Services$105,000

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

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 Association IncTX25.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Dignity Health · Chi Health Foundation · North Dakota Hospital Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Commonspirit Health Research Institute · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust · The California Endowment · The Denver Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment 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 Commonspirit Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonspirit Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home