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Dignity Health Foundation

DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION transferred all of its assets on june 30, 2024.

$632k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$624k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Health$18MHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $250k+1 grant · $624k
$623,931
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIGNITY HEALTH$623,931
COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH$7,653
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KRISTI YAMAGUCHI ALWAYS DREAM: $35k → 9%DIGNITY HEALTH: $8.0M → 10%SIERRA NEVADA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $18k → 11%Dignity Health Medical Foundation: $161k → 12%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $15k → 12%SANTA CRUZ MEDICAL GROUP: $23k → 13%COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH: $8k → 8%DIGNITY HEALTH: $2.7M → 10%DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%DOMINICAN OAKS CORPORATION: $15k → 13%Dignity Health: $1.8M → 10%DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%NICU OPERATING COMPANY SANTA CRUZ: $13k → 13%DIGNITY HEALTH: $1.4M → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $13k → 12%DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%DIGNITY HEALTH: $1.4M → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $12k → 12%DIGNITY HEALTH: $624k → 10%PORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC: $9k → 12%DIGNITY HEALTH: $622k → 10%Dignity Community Care: $311k → 10%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $279k → 10%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $250k → 10%DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $124k → 10%ST FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.
$18M · 4 repeat orgs$126k 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 +33% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$18M
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyOther

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
    7× · 2017–2023 · $17M · revenue +17%
  • DC
    DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $964k · revenue +221%
  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $234k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • KY
    KRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +168%
  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ MEDICAL GROUP
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA MEMORIAL - MINERS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +15%

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.

1
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
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
Dominican Health Services

To conduct, sponsor, advance, encourage, and promote charitable, hospital, educational, scientific and religious activities as may be deemed advisable for advancement of health care. to conduct, sponsor, advance, encourage, promote and…

Health
4
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
5
Dignity Health Hospital and Professional Liability Self-Insurance Trust

Self-insurance program for related exempt organizations.

6
Dignity Health Connected Living

Dignity health connected living is an outpatient services center that offers many services, including adult day program, adult day health care, and foster grandparent and senior companion program. in addition, the organization assists in…

Human Services
7
St Mary's Medical Center Foundation

St. mary's medical center foundation exists to support the mission of dignity health dba, st. mary's medical center. we do this through our encouragement of charitable giving, our stewardship of donor gifts, and our own grant making, which…

Health
8
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
9
Dignity Health Foundation East Valley

To support dignity health and dignity community care healthcare facilities and programs in the southeast valley through philanthropy. the foundation's support allows dignity health and dignity community care dba's, chandler regional…

Health
10
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.

11
Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation

The foundation exists to support the values of dignity health, dba marian regional medical center. the foundation is responsible for the receipt, maintenance, and transfer of money and property for the benefit of dignity health. foundation…

Health
12
Dignity Health Foundation-Inland Empire

To advance the mission, vision and values of dignity health dba st. bernardine medical center and community hospital of san bernardino through philanthropic initiatives and financial support of the medical centers programs & services.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dignity Health and the most unlike its peers is Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIGNITY HEALTH — $16,622,957 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTHDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE — $964,337 · HealthDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE+6 more — $322,662 · HealthSANTA CRUZ MEDICAL GROUP — $23,000 · OtherDOMINICAN OAKS CORPORATION — $15,100 · OtherNICU Operating Company of Santa Cruz LLC — $12,551 · OtherKRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM — $35,000 · Philanthropy
Health$17,909,956Other$50,651Philanthropy$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIGNITY HEALTH — $16,622,957 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE — $964,337 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $233,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CITY OPERATING COMPANY LLC — $48,504 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM — $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA MEMORIAL - MINERS HOSPITAL — $18,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN OAKS CORPORATION — $15,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $9,568 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH — $7,653 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $5,197 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HealthAZ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dignity Health · Public Health Institute · Commonspirit Health Foundation · Commonspirit Health

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 organization Dignity Health Foundation 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dignity Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dignity 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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