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Dignity Health Foundation

DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION transferred all of its assets on june 30, 2024. DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION was formed to serve as a supporting organization to dignity health, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code (the "code"). The…

$632k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$623,931
Largest grant, FY2023
$623,931
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Dignity Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$632k50%
FY20225$8.3M20%
FY20219$3.1M67%
FY20203$2.3M33%
FY20193$1.6M33%
FY20182$1.5M0%
FY20172$631kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$18MHousing & Shelter$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dignity Health$16,622,95770%
Dignity Community Care$964,33740%
Dignity Health Medical Foundation$233,54030%
Port City Operating Company LLC$48,50440%
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream$35,00013%
Santa Cruz Medical Group$23,0001n/a
Sierra Nevada Memorial - Miners Hospital$18,20010%
Dominican Oaks Corporation$15,10010%
NICU Operating Company of Santa Cruz LLC$12,5511n/a
Dominican Hospital Foundation$9,56810%
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All grantees of Dignity Health Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dignity Health$16,622,95770%
Dignity Community Care$964,33740%
Dignity Health Medical Foundation$233,54030%
Port City Operating Company LLC$48,50440%
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream$35,00013%
Santa Cruz Medical Group$23,0001n/a
Sierra Nevada Memorial - Miners Hospital$18,20010%
Dominican Oaks Corporation$15,10010%
NICU Operating Company of Santa Cruz LLC$12,5511n/a
Dominican Hospital Foundation$9,56810%
Commonspirit Health$7,65310%
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital$5,19710%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dignity Health Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

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

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.

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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.

About Dignity Health Foundation

How much does Dignity Health Foundation give?
Dignity Health Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $631,584 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dignity Health Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (100%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
Who are Dignity Health Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Dignity Health ($17M), Dignity Community Care ($964k), Dignity Health Medical Foundation ($234k).
Does Dignity Health Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dignity Health Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dignity Health, Public Health Institute, Commonspirit Health Foundation.
Where is Dignity Health Foundation based?
Dignity Health Foundation is based in CA.

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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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