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Signature Health Care Foundation

The organizations primary exempt purpose is to utilize physician leadersship to improve the quality, efficiency and affordability of health care.

$28k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$53kHealth$35kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNIES HOPE$7,500
MIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITIES$7,500
VET LINKS$7,500
IMF COMMUNITY MEDICINE$5,000
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 (FY17–19, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNLIMITED PLAY: $10k → 5%ANNIES HOPE: $8k → 11%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $8k → 16%BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC: $5k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $8k → 11%HELPIG HAND ME DOWNS: $8k → 11%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 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
Behavioral Health Network of Greater St

Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.

Health
2
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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3
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
4
North Central Missouri Mental Health Center

Nc mo mental health center delivers high quality trauma-informed behavioral health services in a caring and compassionate atmosphere that promotes dignity, builds on natural supports, encourages consumer choice, embraces cultural…

Health
5
Midtown Health Center

Provide high quality medical, behavioral health, and dental services that are affordable, accessible, and patient-focused.

Health
6
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
7
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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8
United Neighborhood Health Services Inc

United neighborhood health services, inc. dba neighborhood health operates health care centers located in the state of tennessee in the counties of davidson, wilson, and sumner. the center provides a broad range of health services to a…

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9
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
10
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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11
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
12
Northeast Missouri Health Council Inc

The ne mo health council, inc. was established to meet the primary healthcare needs of the residents of ne mo through a not-for-profit community-responsible approach. see schedule o for details.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is Vetlinksorg. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNLIMITED PLAY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNLIMITED PLAY INCNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $7,500 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNSCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTERTHE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPL…HELPING HAND ME DOWNS: $7,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND ME DOWNSBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INCBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC: $10,000 · OtherBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MIS…ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10,000 · OtherST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERYIndividual grant recipient: $9,214 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentVETLINKSORG: $7,500 · Public BenefitDEACONESS FAITH COMMUNITY NURSE MINS INC: $7,500 · ReligionTHE DENTAL HEALTH THEATRE INC: $5,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE: $5,000 · Health
Human Services$45,000Other$29,214Youth Development$7,500Public Benefit$7,500Religion$7,500Education$5,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVETLINKSORG: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DENTAL HEALTH THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Jefferson FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…Youthbridge Community…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jefferson FoundationMO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jefferson Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Signature Health Care Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Signature Health Care Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 14 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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