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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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 Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
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
3
Presbyterian Medical Care Corp

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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4
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
5
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
6
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
7
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County 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
9
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
10
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
11
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
12
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation

In keeping with the three-fold ministry of christ, healing, preaching and teaching, baptist memorial health care corporation is committed to providing quality health care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Health; 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 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. 18 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $33,910 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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