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Medica Health Plans

To be the trusted health plan of choice for customers, members, partners and our employees.

$3.5M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$3,500,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$3,500,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$972M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Medica Health Plans funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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
FY20231$3.5M0%
FY202217$3.3M94%
FY20211$184k0%
FY20202$9.2M0%
FY20192$5.2M0%
FY20182$3.2M50%
FY20171$576kn/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$25MHousing & Shelter$65kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$25kCivil Rights$25kCrime & Legal$20kPhilanthropy$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
Medica Foundation$23,300,000569%
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement$1,386,330523%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$125,00010%
Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System$108,53010%
Foster Care Closet$25,00014%
Youth Emergency Services Inc$25,00011%
Cedars Youth Services Inc$25,00010%
Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska$25,0001n/a
Fred Leroy Health and Wellness Center Ponca Tribe of Ne$25,0001n/a
Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc$20,00010%
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All grantees of Medica Health Plans by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medica Foundation$23,300,000569%
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement$1,386,330523%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$125,00010%
Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System$108,53010%
Foster Care Closet$25,00014%
Youth Emergency Services Inc$25,00011%
Cedars Youth Services Inc$25,00010%
Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska$25,0001n/a
Fred Leroy Health and Wellness Center Ponca Tribe of Ne$25,0001n/a
Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc$20,00010%
Rise Academy$20,00011%
Bryan Foundation$15,00010%
Care Corps' Lifehouse$15,00010%
Healthy Housing Omaha$15,00013%
Chicano Awareness Center Inc$15,00011%
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation$15,00010%
The Hub - Central Access Point for Young Adults$10,00012%
The Connection Homeless Shelter Inc$10,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Medica Health Plans supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedica Foundation: $23,300,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetInstitute for Clinical Systems Improvement: $1,386,330 over 5y, 23% of budgetChildren's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System: $108,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Care Closet: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYouth Emergency Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCedars Youth Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRise Academy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBryan Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCare Corps' Lifehouse: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHealthy Housing Omaha: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetChicano Awareness Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNebraska Children & Families Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hub - Central Access Point for Young Adults: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Connection Homeless Shelter Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 16.

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.

Nebraska Community FoundationNE23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Cooper Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · M & M 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.

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How do I get to Medica Health Plans?

Find your warmest path to Medica Health Plans 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 Medica Health Plans

How much does Medica Health Plans give?
Medica Health Plans reported 1 grants totaling $3,500,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Medica Health Plans fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (99%), Housing & Shelter (0%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Medica Health Plans's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Medica Foundation ($23M), Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement ($1.4M), Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation ($125k).
Does Medica Health Plans fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Medica Health Plans?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nebraska Community Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
Where is Medica Health Plans based?
Medica Health Plans is based in MN.

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 18 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 (FY2024) 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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