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Saint Lukes Foundation

The sponsorship of specific projects and programs to improve and support medical services to the patients served by the saint luke's health system, and in connection with such activities, to promote health education, training, prevention and research programs.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$119MEducation$5.2MYouth Development$14k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $16,833,249 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,458,310 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,625,061 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $476k
  • $250k+5 grants · $16M
$121,305
Median grant
2
States reached
$285M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY$13,704,968
SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP$1,454,723
SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL$439,344
University of Missouri-Kansas City Foundation$367,150
Rockhurst University$293,416
SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE AND HOSPICE$180,772
BISHOP SPENCER PLACE$123,645
SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL$121,305
SAINT LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM$50,267
SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER$23,181
MISSION VISION PROJECT$23,032
SAINT LUKE'S NORTH HOSPITAL$19,905
Saint Luke's Neighborhood Clinics LLC$11,555
Heart Surgeons of Kansas City Inc$10,896
Saint Luke's Hospital of Garnett Inc$9,090
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL: $483k → 5%SAINT LUKE'S NORTH HOSPITAL: $272k → 8%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $15.2M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL: $459k → 5%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $13.9M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL: $439k → 5%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $13.7M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL: $254k → 5%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $12.9M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S SOUTH HOSPITAL: $221k → 5%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $11.3M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $11.0M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $10.8M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $8.3M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $980k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $910k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $511k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE & HOSPICE: $356k → 15%KC CARE HEALTH CENTER: $300k → 15%KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC: $270k → 15%KC CARE HEALTH CENTER: $252k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE & HOSPICE: $220k → 15%KC CARE HEALTH CENTER: $220k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY: $772k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY: $329k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY: $326k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY: $301k → 15%Rockhurst University: $293k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY: $216k → 15%Rockhurst University: $208k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.8M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.6M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.5M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.5M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.2M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $1.2M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP INC: $1.2M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S PHYSICIAN GROUP INC: $1.1M → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE AND HOSPICE: $411k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE AND HOSPICE: $289k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE AND HOSPICE: $235k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S HOME CARE AND HOSPICE: $207k → 15%University of Missouri-Kansas City Foundation: $367k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL: $506k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL: $404k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL: $326k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL: $244k → 15%SAINT LUKE'S EAST HOSPITAL: $200k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123M · 15 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$123M
$446k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-8%

Still filing today

87%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SL
    St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97M · revenue +44%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes Physician Group Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +52%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes South Hospital Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • MV
    MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $168k · revenue -8%
  • HM
    HEDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Luke's Regional Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
2
Rockhill Orthopaedic Specialists Inc

Rockhill orthopaedic specialists, inc. is committed to providing advanced, evidence-based orthopaedic health care and health services. the organization values a service model emphasizing clinical excellence and the highest quality of care…

Health
3
St Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
St Luke's McCall Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Medical Plaza Imaging Associates Llc

Medical plaza imaging associates llc is an outpatient medical imaging center committed to the highest levels of excellence in providing health care services to all patients in a caring environment.

Health
7
St Luke's Nampa Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
St Luke's Health System Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Ssm-Sluh Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

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10
Saint Lukes Foundation

The sponsorship of specific projects and programs to improve and support medical services to the patients served by the saint luke's health system, and in connection with such activities, to promote health education, training, prevention…

Health
11
St Luke's-St Vincent's Healthcare Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
12
Hudson Vista Physician Services Pc

To provide emergency physician services and other licensed healthcare professional services to st. luke's cornwall hospital patients.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Saint Lukes College of Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%10%10–20yr16%62%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr25%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%2%10–20yr16%88%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr25%4%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
1,090/8,557

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $97,214,822 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas CitySaint Lukes Physician Group Inc — $11,193,048 · HealthSaint Lukes Physician Group Inc+15 more — $8,518,996 · Health+15 moreSaint Lukes College of Health Sciences — $2,504,777 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $1,944,251 · OtherKansas City CARE Clinic — $1,041,498 · OtherKANSAS CITY ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE LLC — $200,000 · Other+1 more — $10,484 · OtherROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $806,580 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATION — $407,150 · Education+2 more — $35,532 · EducationBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $13,834 · Youth Development
Health$116,926,866Other$5,701,010Education$1,249,262Youth Development$13,834

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $97,214,822 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSaint Lukes Physician Group Inc — $11,193,048 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSaint Lukes College of Health Sciences — $2,504,777 over 4y, 12% of budgetSaint Lukes South Hospital Inc — $2,185,132 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Lukes Health System Home Care and Hospice — $2,085,084 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSaint Lukes East Hospital — $2,007,547 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic — $1,041,498 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSaint Lukes North Hospital — $908,969 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $806,580 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Lukes Health System Inc — $495,260 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBishop Spencer Place Inc — $469,375 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION — $407,150 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $167,608 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH PHYSICIANS — $101,837 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $23,181 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION VISION PROJECT — $23,032 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSaint Lukes Hospital of Garnett Inc — $22,924 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $14,584 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $13,834 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Lukes Hospital of Trenton — $13,834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc — $10,484 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdvanced Urologic Associates Inc — $7,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Luke's Hospital of Chillicothe — $5,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Lukes Health Sy…Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Saint Lukes East Hosp…The Research Foundati…Health Forward Founda…Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Lukes Health System IncMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Lukes Health System Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Saint Lukes East Hospital · The Research Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Saint Lukes Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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