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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $16,833,249, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,458,310 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,625,061 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

  • 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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
$123M · 15 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
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

  • 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 -52%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Ssm-Sluh Inc

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

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5
St Luke's McCall Ltd

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

Health
6
Hudson Vista Physician Services Pc

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

Health
7
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
8
St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd

St. Luke's Health Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established to develop philanthropic resources that support St. Luke's mission "To improve the health of people in the communities we serve." We're responsible for cultivating…

Health
9
Seton Health System Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…

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10
St Luke's Hospital

St. luke's hospital provides exceptional care for our community, inspiring hope and promoting wellness. our values of excellence, compassion, integrity, dedication, respect and teamwork allow us to fulfill our mission every day in our work…

Health
11
Hudson Vista Medical Pc

To provide multi-specialty healthcare services to st. luke's cornwall hospital patients.

Health
12
Saint Thomas Health

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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 27 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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