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Commonspirit Health Foundation

COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION serves to operate in conformity with the mission, vision, and values of commonspirit health and to participate in collaborative efforts to enhance and improve the fundraising and grant-making efforts of all fundraising foundations across the commonspirit health system.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$568k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$4.6M
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $282k
  • $250k+1 grant · $568k
$27,425
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIGNITY HEALTH$568,167
CHI ST LUKES HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER$120,350
DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE$111,663
COMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION$50,000
HOUSTON ST LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION$46,666
ST LUKES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION-SUGAR LAND$27,425
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA$25,000
PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC$18,439
BAYLOR ST LUKES MEDICAL GROUP$14,750
ST LUKES COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$12,875
ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC$12,000
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BRAZOSPORT$9,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DIGNITY HEALTH: $568k → 11%ALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $12k → 12%DIGNITY HEALTH: $1.5M → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $250k → 12%ST LUKES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION-SUGAR LAND: $27k → 8%HOUSTON ST LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION: $47k → 9%COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BRAZOSPORT: $10k → 10%CHI ST LUKES HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER: $120k → 16%COMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION: $50k → 8%BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $112k → 11%DIGNITY HEALTH: $1.1M → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $18k → 12%BAYLOR ST LUKES MEDICAL GROUP: $15k → 16%DIGNITY HEALTH: $672k → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $5k → 12%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $13k → 16%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $44k → 10%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $13k → 10%SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $6k → 10%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 3 repeat orgs$325k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$4.3M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+82%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +22%
  • PC
    PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $273k · revenue +25%
  • DC
    DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $168k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UH
    UCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +82%
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
Trinity Hospital Twin City

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
Community Hospital of San Bernardino

Community hospital of san bernardino ("chsb") is a non-profit, full-service, acute care facility in business to provide acute inpatient care, long-term care and a wide range of ancillary and therapeutic care to the community we serve. our…

Health
3
St Joseph Services 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
4
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
5
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.

—
6
St Joseph's Area Health Services

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
Jewish Hospital & St Mary's Healthcare Inc

To bring hope, improve health and change lives. inspired by our catholic and jewish faith heritage, we serve with a spirit of innovation and collaboration, transform health care delivery, partner to create healthy communities and advocate…

Health
8
St Francis 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
9
California Hospital Medical Center Foundation

California hospital medical center foundation is organized to raise, manage and distribute funds in support of the mission and values of california hospital medical center in serving the community.

Health
10
Commonspirit Health Operating Investment Pool Llc

Commonspirit health operating investment pool, llc ("csh oip") holds and invests the operating capital for commonspirit health ("commonspirit"), a colorado nonprofit corporation, and many of its related entities, which collectively carry…

Religion
11
Commonspirit Washington F/K/a Franciscan Health System

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
St Joseph's Foundation

To raise funds and provide support services for patient care, medical education, community outreach, research, and care for those in need at dignity health, dba st. joseph's hospital and medical center.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Community Development Corporation - Sugar Land; the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. 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

13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIGNITY HEALTH: $3,857,889 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTHPORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $273,447 · HealthPORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLCDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $168,495 · Health+10 more: $324,816 · Health+10 more
Health$4,624,647

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 budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $3,857,889 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $273,447 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $168,495 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHI ST LUKE'S HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER: $120,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION: $46,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - SUGAR LAND: $27,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR ST LUKE'S MEDICAL GROUP: $14,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $12,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEGENT CREIGHTON CLINIC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BRAZOSPORT: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

St Luke's FoundationCommonspirit HealthSt Luke's Health Syst…Dignity Health Founda…Public Health Institu…
St Luke's FoundationAZ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Luke's Foundation · Commonspirit Health · St Luke's Health System Corporation · Dignity Health Foundation · Public Health Institute

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonspirit 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Commonspirit Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Commonspirit Health Foundation 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 13 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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