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Saint Thomas Health Foundations

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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15M
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$40MPhilanthropy$147kRecreation & Sports$34kEducation$9k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $222k
  • $250k+4 grants · $16M
$222,421
Median grant
3
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT THOMAS WEST HOSPITAL$15,243,300
PINK RIBBON GOOD INC$450,000
SAINT THOMAS HEALTH$301,262
SAINT THOMAS MEDICAL PARTNERS$275,520
SAINT THOMAS HICKMAN HOSPITAL$222,421
SAINT THOMAS REGIONAL HOSPITALS$48,375
YMCA OF MIDDLE TN$33,910
HUMPHREYS COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC$18,659
TENNESSEE MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE$10,500
ASCENSION HEALTH$8,994
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 (FY25–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $34k → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 15 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$40M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+169%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • ST
    Saint Thomas West Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue +186%
  • ST
    Saint Thomas Medical Partners
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +169%
  • ST
    Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital
    3× · 2017–2020 · $901k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • ST
    St Thomas Hospital Auxilliary
    one grant, 2019 · $43k
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +16%
  • GE
    GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +169%

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
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital

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
2
St Agnes 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
3
St Mary's Health 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
4
St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center 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
5
Ascension Texas

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
6
St Vincent's Medical Center 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…

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7
Ascension Seton

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…

—
8
St Vincent's Medical Center

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
9
Providence Health Alliance

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
10
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
11
St Vincent Health 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
Ascension Providence

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Thomas Health and the most unlike its peers is The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust. 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Saint Thomas West Hospital — $28,804,883 · HealthSaint Thomas West HospitalTHE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST — $3,011,701 · HealthTHE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUSTSaint Thomas Health — $2,222,583 · HealthSaint Thomas HealthSaint Thomas Medical Partners — $1,651,322 · Health+5 more — $1,693,031 · HealthSaint Thomas Midtown Hospital — $901,065 · OtherMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc — $530,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS NETWORK — $461,485 · OtherSaint Thomas Regional Hospitals — $286,551 · Other+3 more — $125,427 · OtherNASHVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $218,433 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $130,769 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $15,871 · PhilanthropyYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $33,910 · Human ServicesGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION — $8,650 · Education
Health$37,383,520Other$2,304,528Community Improvement$218,433Philanthropy$146,640Human Services$33,910Education$8,650

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSaint Thomas West Hospital — $28,804,883 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST — $3,011,701 over 4y, 21% of budgetSaint Thomas Health — $2,222,583 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Thomas Medical Partners — $1,651,322 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Thomas Midtown Hospital — $901,065 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc — $530,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAscension Health — $508,810 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Thomas Hickman Hospital — $406,876 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSaint Thomas Network — $308,686 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSaint Thomas Regional Hospitals — $286,551 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $218,433 over 4y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $130,769 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION — $56,992 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHumphreys County Community Health Services Inc — $18,659 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $15,871 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION — $8,650 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Thomas Rutherfo…American Heart Associ…Saint Thomas West Hos…Vanderbilt University…The Community Foundat…
Saint Thomas Rutherford FoundationMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Saint Thomas West Hospital · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc

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 Thomas Health Foundations 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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