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St John Providence

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care and healing.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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$616kCommunity Improvement$131kArts & Culture$106kEmployment$75kHousing & Shelter$31kCivil Rights$28kHuman Services$20kPublic Benefit$16k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$32,358
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION$32,358
02The need
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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 (FY17–18, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $31k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of St John Providence’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

St John Providencelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$762k · 6 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +97% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$762k
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+97%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $566k · revenue +180%
  • MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $29k · revenue +100%
  • SF
    SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +23%
  • DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +149%
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
Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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2
Henry Ford Health Macomb Oakland Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
3
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
4
About Face Detroit
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5
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
6
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
7
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
8
Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
9
Henry Ford Health St John Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
10
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation

Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…

Health
11
Ascension Michigan

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…

Human Services
12
Metro Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation

To develop programs and advocate for policies that result in profitable and sustainable black-owned businesses that are connected to public and private economic opportunities, while building trusted relationships.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Health; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Affairs Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $565,821 · PhilanthropyHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONCITIZENS FOR CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITIES: $100,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR CONNECTIN…DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC: $58,000 · OtherDETROIT CRISTO REY HIG…THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $8,500 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE FAIR A PRIVATE ENTITY: $7,500 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $17,000 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOL…Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,002 · OtherDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT JA…MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $28,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $31,250 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $32,358 · HealthCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $8,000 · HealthHENRY FORD SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $6,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK WOMENS AGENDA: $19,500 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $8,140 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$565,821Other$203,502Arts & Culture$98,500Human Services$51,250Health$45,358Community Improvement$31,000Civil Rights$27,640

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $565,821 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $32,358 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $31,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $28,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK WOMENS AGENDA: $19,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $8,140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlack Caucus Foundation of Michigan: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE: $5,002 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHENRY FORD SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY HEALTH: $5,000 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.

Henry Ford Southeast …DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …WK Kellogg FoundationHenry Ford Health Pro…Ford PhilanthropyCharles Stewart Mott …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community HealthMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Health · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital · Ford Philanthropy · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 St John Providence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St John Providence. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–60%
    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.
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    How do I get to St John Providence?

    Find your warmest path to St John Providence through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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