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Saint Lukes Health System Inc

Saint luke's health system is a faith-based, not-for-profit aligned health system committed to the highest levels of excellence in providing health care and health related services in a caring environment.

$3.6M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$3.3M
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 FY2017–2023.

Health$51MYouth Development$410kHuman Services$120kFood & Nutrition$95kPhilanthropy$74kCommunity Improvement$72kArts & Culture$48kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.3M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$376M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKES HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY$3,292,316
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$50,000
GILDAS CLUB OF KANSAS CITY$25,000
SAVE INC$25,000
AIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$15,000
COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE$15,000
NORTHLAND HEALTH ALLIANCE$15,000
KANBES MARKETS$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
METRO LUTHERAN MINISTRY$15,000
KC CARE HEALTH CENTER$10,000
CENTER OF GRACE$10,000
HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$10,000
BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL$6,451
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MISSOURI COALITION OF CHILDREN'S AGENCIES: $10k → 10%Missouri Coalition of Children's Agencies: $10k → 10%CENTER OF GRACE: $10k → 5%BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $15k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $8k → 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.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$51M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$1.3M
$47M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BK
    BIONEXUS KC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $101k · revenue +34%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $85k · revenue +26%
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SL
    Saint Lukes North Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $20M · revenue +15%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes East Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $17M · revenue +7%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes Hospital of Garnett Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5.1M · revenue -1%

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
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
2
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
3
Kansas City Country Club

The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…

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4
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
Heart Surgeons of Kansas City Inc

Heart Surgeons of Kansas City, Inc. was formed for the purpose of providing heart and vascular surgery to patients and related medical services through its employed surgeons.

Health
7
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
8
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…

Education
9
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
10
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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11
Mid-America Regional Council Community Services Corporation

Marc csc administers collaborative programs that benefit kansas city area communities. this includes programs supporting early learning initiatives, poverty studies, workforce development, healthcare and other regional initiatives.

Community Improvement
12
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truman Heartland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInternational Child & Commu…Youth Development Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsSenior Residential CareProfessional Association Ne…Trauma & Crisis Support Ser…Regional Economic Developme…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr12%37%35–55yr25%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr16%97%20–35yr12%1%35–55yr25%2%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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,374

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

44 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. 44 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Saint Lukes North Hospital — $20,219,587 · HealthSaint Lukes North HospitalSaint Lukes East Hospital — $16,675,250 · HealthSaint Lukes East HospitalSaint Lukes Hospital of Garnett Inc — $5,114,950 · HealthSaint Lukes Hospital of Garnett IncSaint Lukes South Hospital Inc — $3,349,046 · HealthSaint Lukes South Hospital IncSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $3,292,316 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City+9 more — $1,908,712 · HealthCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC — $104,000 · OtherNorthland Health Alliance — $59,000 · OtherKansas City CARE Clinic — $57,240 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $35,000 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $30,000 · OtherCITY OF LEE'S SUMMIT - ADMINISTRATI — $27,000 · OtherSAVE INC — $25,000 · OtherNOURISHKC — $20,000 · Other+15 more — $161,312 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $400,000 · Youth DevelopmentAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $91,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $46,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $35,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 · PhilanthropyBIONEXUS KC — $101,274 · Science & TechHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $60,000 · Food & NutritionKANBE'S MARKETS — $15,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $22,964 · Human ServicesMissouri Childcare Association — $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF GRACE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBishop Sullivan Center Inc — $10,000 · Human Services
Health$50,559,861Other$518,552Youth Development$400,000Philanthropy$191,500Science & Tech$101,274Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$62,964

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 budgetSaint Lukes North Hospital — $20,219,587 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetSaint Lukes East Hospital — $16,675,250 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSaint Lukes Hospital of Garnett Inc — $5,114,950 over 1y, 16% of budgetSaint Lukes South Hospital Inc — $3,349,046 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $3,292,316 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Lukes Physician Group Inc — $1,193,782 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $400,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSaint Lukes Health System Home Care and Hospice — $400,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBIONEXUS KC — $101,274 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $91,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $84,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic — $57,240 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $46,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthland Health Care Access — $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY — $39,600 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMid-America Coalition on Health Care — $24,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $22,964 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC — $20,450 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMissouri Childcare Association — $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNOURISHKC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $16,380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN LEES SUMMIT MAIN STREET INC — $16,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $15,661 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF GRACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBishop Sullivan Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE SPRINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $8,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLEE'S SUMMIT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC — $6,451 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Health Forward Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sunderland Founda…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…Oppenstein Brothers F…Saint Lukes FoundationBjc Health System Gro…Marion and Henry Bloc…Menorah Heritage Foun…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO43.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation · Bjc Health System Group Return · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family 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 Health System Inc 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 50 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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