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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.

$345k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$177k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$3.7M
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $324k
$94,427
Median grant
4
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC$177,132
ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER$94,427
TRIHEALTH$52,625
DIGNITY- UC DAVIS MED CTR CALIFORNIA$20,950
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIGNITY - ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL-PHOENIX AZ: $102k → 11%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $27k → 12%Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center: $138k → 13%DIGNITY - SACRAMENTO CA: $17k → 12%DIGNITY- UC DAVIS MED CTR CALIFORNIA: $61k → 19%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $132k → 17%CHI - IOWA CORP (MERCY DES MOINES): $180k → 10%CENTURA: $81k → 8%CENTURA ADVENTIST PENROSE: $16k → 9%TRIHEALTH: $148k → 19%FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $19k → 9%COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH: $103k → 14%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $177k → 15%JEWISH HOSPITAL & ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE INC: $33k → 15%DIGNITY - ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL-PHOENIX AZ: $75k → 11%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $21k → 12%DIGNITY- UC DAVIS MED CTR CALIFORNIA: $46k → 19%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $118k → 17%CHI - IOWA CORP (MERCY DES MOINES): $153k → 10%CENTURA: $61k → 8%TRIHEALTH: $115k → 19%FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $53k → 15%DIGNITY - ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL-PHOENIX AZ: $24k → 11%ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $15k → 12%DIGNITY- UC DAVIS MED CTR CALIFORNIA: $45k → 19%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $97k → 17%CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP: $85k → 10%CENTURA: $50k → 8%Trinity Health System: $88k → 19%FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $13k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $42k → 15%DIGNITY- UC DAVIS MED CTR CALIFORNIA: $21k → 19%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $96k → 17%CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP: $58k → 10%CHI Colorado: $33k → 8%TRIHEALTH: $78k → 19%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30k → 15%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $94k → 17%CHI - IOWA CORP (MERCY DES MOINES): $49k → 10%COMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION: $15k → 8%TRIHEALTH: $60k → 19%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $29k → 15%ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $83k → 17%CENTURA: $13k → 8%TRIHEALTH: $54k → 19%SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $22k → 15%TRIHEALTH: $53k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
KY
AZ
AR
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 13 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$3.4M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-10%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionOther
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

  • SV
    ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $621k · revenue +9%
  • CH
    CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP
    5× · 2018–2023 · $524k · revenue +22%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $363k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SE
    SAINT ELIZABETH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $138k · revenue -10%
  • CH
    COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $103k · revenue +10%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOSPITAL & ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue -99%
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
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
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
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
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.

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6
Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy 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
7
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
8
St Mary's Community Hospital

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
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
10
Alegent Health-Immanuel 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
11
St Vincent Medical Group

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
Kentuckyone Health Inc

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonspirit Washington F/K/a Franciscan Health System; the most unlike its peers is Trinty Health System. 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 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $620,505 · HealthST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTERCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP: $524,079 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORPSAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $362,719 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INCSAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER: $333,058 · HealthSAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTERCOMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION: $268,172 · HealthCOMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGIONSAINT ELIZABETH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $138,087 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL: $133,834 · HealthCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH: $103,234 · Health+5 more: $221,545 · Health+5 moreTRINTY HEALTH SYSTEM: $543,298 · OtherTRINTY HEALTH SYSTEMST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $211,026 · OtherST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL AND MEDI…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $184,774 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAV…TRIHEALTH INC: $52,625 · Religion
Health$2,705,233Other$939,098Religion$52,625

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST VINCENT INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER: $620,505 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRINTY HEALTH SYSTEM: $543,298 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP: $524,079 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $362,719 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER: $333,058 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT MOUNTAIN REGION: $268,172 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $138,087 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL: $133,834 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH: $103,234 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH: $75,501 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT WASHINGTON F/K/A FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $70,122 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRIHEALTH INC: $52,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPITAL & ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE INC: $33,231 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT OREGON: $27,549 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $15,142 over 2y, 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.

American Heart Associ…Commonspirit Health
American Heart Association IncTX15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Commonspirit Health

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 Research Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonspirit Health Research Institute. 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
    8report 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 17 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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