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Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc

The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$15MHuman Services$158kPhilanthropy$89k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $5,338,145, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,775,848 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $437,703 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.2M
$1,512,214
Median grant
1
States reached
$105M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER$3,011,254
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER$1,512,214
GUNDERSEN CLINIC LTD$695,229
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES INC$119,448
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: $6k → 12%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.
$20M · 6 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$20M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GL
    Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +65%
  • GC
    Gundersen Clinic Ltd
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +34%
  • GL
    Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +9%
  • LC
    LA CROSSE AREA AUTISM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • MH
    MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF BOSCOBELgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $31k · revenue +67%
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
Tri-County Memorial Hospital Inc

Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating.

Health
2
Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc

To support gundersen lutheran medical center, inc. and gundersen clinic, ltd. and/or their affiliates' programs of health care, medical education, medical research and community health promotion activities within the meaning of sec…

Health
3
Moundview Memorial Hospital & Clinics

Leading with love, we courageously commit to a future of healthy people and thriving communities.

Health
4
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…

Health
5
Oconto Hospital and Medical Center

The mission of oconto hospital & medical center is to provide 24-hour local access to effective, efficient health, wellness and preventative services to oconto and the surrounding rural communities. toward this purpose oconto hospital &…

Health
6
Tweeten Lutheran Health Care Center Inc

Tweeten lutheran health care is a family that includes residents, caregivers, volunteers, family members & friends. each member of the family brings their knowledge and talents to the household for the benefit of all. with respect for each…

Health
7
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
Centracare Health System - Long Prairie

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
10
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…

Health
11
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc: $14,742,078 · HealthGundersen Lutheran Medical Center IncGundersen Clinic Ltd: $2,661,627 · HealthGundersen Clinic LtdGundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc: $2,406,380 · HealthGundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc+5 more: $210,491 · HealthLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $152,000 · OtherLA CROSSE AREA AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,404 · OtherGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,400 · PhilanthropyFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5,509 · Human Services
Health$20,020,576Other$220,404Philanthropy$89,400Human Services$5,509

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc: $14,742,078 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGundersen Clinic Ltd: $2,661,627 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc: $2,406,380 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $152,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTri-State Ambulance Inc: $113,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH SERVICES INC: $39,090 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF BOSCOBEL: $31,401 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,404 over 1y, 25% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5,509 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Lyche Family Foundati…Gundersen Lutheran Ad…La Crosse Community F…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lyche Family Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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