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Methodist Healthcare Foundation

To uplift methodist le bonheur healthcare's compassionate care for our entire community through philanthropy, health advocacy, and a vision of healing and hope.

$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
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$32MEducation$1.9MScience & Tech$203k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $3,241,010, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,256,543 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,015,533 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METHODIST HEALTHCARE - MEMPHIS HOSPITALS$2,129,396
SEMMES MURPHEY FOUNDATION$348,600
METHODIST HEALTHCARE - MEMPHIS HOSPITALS$251,515
ALLIANCE HEALTH SERVICES INC$250,000
CAMPBELL CLINIC FOUNDATION$120,522
METHODIST LE BONHEUR HEALTHCARE INC$110,730
METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$15,747
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$14,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $119k → 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $95k → 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $57k → 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $39k → 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $34k → 17%METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $16k → 17%Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach: $15k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$34M
$0

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman 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

  • SF
    SEMMES-MURPHEY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +100% · 29% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +178%
  • TC
    THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +26%

Funded once

    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
    Methodist Medical Center

    Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

    Health
    2
    Ut Medical Group Inc

    To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

    Health
    3
    Fort Loudoun Medical Center

    Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

    Health
    4
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

    Health
    5
    Methodist Hospitals of Dallas

    The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…

    Health
    6
    University of Minnesota Physicians

    University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

    Health
    7
    Mcleod Health

    To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

    Health
    8
    The Methodist Hospital

    To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

    Health
    9
    East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

    East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

    Health
    10
    Mount Auburn Hospital

    The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…

    Health
    11
    Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

    Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

    Health
    12
    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
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach; the most unlike its peers is The University of Tennessee Foundation 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

    9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    6/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals: $24,911,832 · HealthMethodist Healthcare-Memphis HospitalsAlliance Health Services Inc: $2,272,337 · HealthAlliance Health Services Inc+3 more: $815,758 · HealthSEMMES-MURPHEY FOUNDATION: $2,803,967 · EducationSEMMES-MURPHEY …THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,902,369 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY …THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $1,029,672 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $202,917 · OtherMethodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach: $375,572 · Human Services
    Health$27,999,927Education$4,706,336Other$1,232,589Human Services$375,572

    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 budgetMethodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals: $24,911,832 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSEMMES-MURPHEY FOUNDATION: $2,803,967 over 8y, 29% of budgetAlliance Health Services Inc: $2,272,337 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,902,369 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $1,029,672 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc: $449,459 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMethodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach: $375,572 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $327,744 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMethodist Healthcare-Olive Branch Hospital: $38,555 over 3y, 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.

    • Who funds Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals ↗
    • Who funds SEMMES-MURPHEY FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds Alliance Health Services Inc ↗
    • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ↗
    • Who funds Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach ↗
    • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
    • Who funds Methodist Healthcare-Olive Branch Hospital ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    United Way of the Mid SouthTN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: United Way of the Mid South

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

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24
    no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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