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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 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, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 4 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
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
    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%
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
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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dignity Health; 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 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Dignity HealthPublic Health Institu…Commonspirit Health F…Commonspirit Health
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dignity Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dignity 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%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, 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 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 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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