How much does Esse Health Foundation give?

Esse Health Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Esse Health Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (73%), Education (8%), Human Services (7%).

Who are Esse Health Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($45k), American Diabetes Association ($40k), Loyola Academy of St Louis ($35k).

Does Esse Health Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Esse Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Esse Health Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Philanthropic Organization, Youthbridge Community Foundation.

Where is Esse Health Foundation based?

Esse Health Foundation is based in MO.

Esse Health Foundation

Esse Health Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Esse Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$328kEducation$38kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$18kYouth Development$8kReligion$3kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$61k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION	$5,000
MIDTOWN COMMUNITY SERVICES	$5,000
CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH	$5,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION	$5,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$5,000
MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS	$2,500
LOYOLA ACADEMY	$2,500
COLLEGE BOUND	$2,500
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION	$2,500
ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT	$2,000
INDEPENDENCE CENTER	$2,000
EVERTRUE	$2,000
THE CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION	$2,000
NURSES FOR NEWBORNS	$2,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$400k · 22 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$400k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+12%

Still filing today

59%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%
LA
LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS
7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +226%
MC
MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS
7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +73%

Funded once

SL
ST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +94%
CD
CASA DE SALUDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
GC
GREAT CIRCLE
one grant, 2020 · $4k · 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.

Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.

Health

St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified

Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Children's Cancer Society; the most unlike its peers is Troy Dream Center Inc. 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

24 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. 24 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

16/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$219,162Health$165,500Education$35,000Human Services$18,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · Pott Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Tsf · Jefferson Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation

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 Esse Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esse Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home