How much did DIGNITY HEALTH grant in FY2023?

DIGNITY HEALTH reported 254 grants totaling $360,822,649 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

DIGNITY HEALTH

As an affiliate of commonspirit health (commonspirit), DIGNITY HEALTH is committed to making the healing presence of god known in our work by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

$361M

Granted FY2023

254

Grants

Communities

$256M

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Health$1.6BEducation$61MPhilanthropy$52MHuman Services$39MHousing & Shelter$9.1MArts & Culture$3.6MReligion$3.2MCrime & Legal$3.1MYouth Development$2.4MOther$201M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

lung cancerrightlinccancer researchuncfearnchc

2020

agriculturesoccerseeagswelfareregardrestoringaccountability

2021

babytacoma needleneedle exchangesyringe exchangedave purchasemncveterans dedicated

2022

housednon-fundedparentyouth parentingparenting cal-learnyes youthpastor

2023

growingjewisharrive aliveoperate low-incomefight againstfaithcare educational

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 254 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k25 grants · $176k
$10k–50k91 grants · $2.2M
$50k–250k96 grants · $8.5M
$250k+42 grants · $348M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$17.3B

Total assets

Largest grants

DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION$256,217,992
MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INC$15,000,000
DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE$13,800,328
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$7,807,500
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$5,940,833
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$5,575,200
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST$5,357,217
MARICOPA COUNTY SPECIAL HEALTH CARE DISTRICT$3,910,000
ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,040,480
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$2,966,667
ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION$2,064,915
SIERRA NEVADA MEMORIAL - MINERS HOSPITAL$2,000,000
ST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,804,692
MERCY FOUNDATION$1,687,957
DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY$1,601,625

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $37.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0B · 401 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

401 repeat relationships — 192 still active in FY2023, 209 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

401

295

Total granted

$2.0B

$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+45%

Still filing today

88%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 Medical Foundation
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3B · revenue +36%
PC
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers
3× · 2019–2021 · $117M · revenue +115% · 33% of their budget
DC
Dignity Community Care
5× · 2019–2023 · $77M · revenue +183%

Funded once

YM
Young Mens Christian Association Of Silicon Valley
one grant, 2019 · $2.8M · revenue -23%
TC
THE CHILDRENS CLINIC SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
SS
SHASTA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -62% · 91% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

Cascadia Health

Cascadia health delivers whole health care - integrated mental health and addiction services, primary care, and housing - to support our communities and provide hope and well-being for those we serve.

Health

United Health Centers of the San Joaquin

The organization is committed to the lifetime wellness of the communities by providing accessible, comprehensive quality health care to everyone with the compassion and respect, regardless of ability to pay.

Health

Physicians for a Healthy California

Physicians for a Healthy California is dedicated to improving community health, growing a diverse physician workforce and promoting health equity. Our programs continue to improve public health, provide clinical practice support and…

Health

Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter

Axis Community Health Inc

The mission of Axis Community Health is to provide quality, affordable, accessible, and compassionate health care services that promote the well being of all members of the community.

Health

Community Health Center of

To provide our diverse community with access to high quality, affordable primary health care

Health

California Primary Care Association

Position community health clinics to be key players in the health care delivery system to improve the health status of their communities.

Health

Valley Community Healthcare

A nonprofit comprehensive neighborhood health center in the san fernando valley.

Health

Asian Health Services

To serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee asian community, and to ensure equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture.

Health

League of California

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy

Family Healthcare Network

To provide health care services to socially and economically depressed sectors of the southern San Joaquin Valley in California.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Acting in Community Together and the most unlike its peers is Morehouse College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%8/767

the rest of the field

12%

22,285/186,211

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

693 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

222

Early backer (in before they grew)

671/693

Grantees still filing

535/693

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$1,608,133,952Other$209,797,737Education$61,321,148Philanthropy$51,542,902Human Services$38,978,206Housing & Shelter$9,072,530Arts & Culture$3,588,059

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dignity Community CareCA81.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dignity Community Care · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · California Physicians' Service Fdn · Sierra Health Foundation · The California Endowment · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Sunlight Giving · California Healthcare Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation DIGNITY HEALTH funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHASTA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND SERVICES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872892533 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHASTA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND SERVICES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dignity Health?

Find your warmest path to Dignity Health through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines