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St Luke's Methodist Hospital

The mission of st.

$30M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29M
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$191MEducation$7.7MHuman Services$177kArts & Culture$54kEmployment$45kPhilanthropy$24kYouth Development$10kHousing & Shelter$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $243k
  • $250k+1 grant · $29M
$242,728
Median grant
1
States reached
$637M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION$29,495,370
CEDAR RAPIDS MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$242,728
RCL$20,197
IOWA STATEWIDE POISON CONTROL CENTER$14,750
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 (FY18–19, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $20k → 9%METH-WICK COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$168M · 7 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$168M
$31M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-37%
+33%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IP
    IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $146M · revenue +27%
  • SC
    STL CARE COMPANY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $14M · revenue -44% · 52% of their budget
  • CR
    CEDAR RAPIDS MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue -97% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2017 · $30M · revenue -5%
  • AI
    ABBEHEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $547k · revenue +33% · 29% of their budget
  • UA
    UNITYPOINT AT HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $142k · revenue +63%

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
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
2
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
3
Unitypoint Health At Work

Unitypoint health at work provides onsite health and wellness services designed for improved patient experience, reduced healthcare cost and improved population health.

Health
4
Northwest Iowa Hospital Corporation

The mission of northwest iowa hospital corporation, d/b/a st. luke's regional medical center, is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.

Health
5
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
6
Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

Health
7
Unity Healthcare

The mission of trinity-muscatine is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.

Health
9
Siouxland Pace Inc

To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.

Health
10
St Luke'sjones Regional Medical Center

To provide quality services in an efficient, cost-effective manner and to promote healthy lifestyles to our customers.

Education
11
Abbe Center for Community Mental Health

Reaching out to improve lives in our communities through advocacy, support and the integration of mental health, substance use and wellness services. abbe center for community mental health (mhc) serves as the safety net mental health…

Health
12
Trinity Medical Center

The mission of trinity medical center is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Patrons of the Performing Arts At Washington High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number8%0%<5yr5%5%5–10yr8%0%10–20yr6%46%20–35yr8%27%35–55yr65%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value8%0%<5yr5%0%5–10yr8%0%10–20yr6%93%20–35yr8%7%35–55yr65%0%55yr+

The field is 8% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
5%
484/10,453

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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $146,187,789 · HealthIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATIONIOWA HEALTH SYSTEM — $30,029,409 · HealthIOWA HEALTH SYSTEMSTL CARE COMPANY — $13,929,241 · HealthSTL CARE COMPANY+7 more — $618,011 · HealthCEDAR RAPIDS MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,699,864 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationUNITYPOINT AT HOME — $142,237 · OtherUNITYPOINT AT WORK — $45,000 · OtherLINN COUNTY AUDITOR — $42,500 · Other+2 more — $13,000 · OtherAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $26,197 · Arts & CultureLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,666 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA STATEWIDE POISON CONTROL CENTER — $36,875 · Public Safety & DisasterWAYPOINT SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE METH-WICK COMMUNITY INC — $6,666 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $24,400 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$190,764,450Education$7,705,864Other$242,737Arts & Culture$47,863Public Safety & Disaster$36,875Human Services$26,666Philanthropy$24,400Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetIOWA PHYSICIANS CLINIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $146,187,789 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetIOWA HEALTH SYSTEM — $30,029,409 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSTL CARE COMPANY — $13,929,241 over 3y, 52% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,699,864 over 8y, 91% of budgetABBEHEALTH INC — $547,371 over 1y, 29% of budgetUNITYPOINT AT HOME — $142,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATEWIDE POISON CONTROL CENTER — $36,875 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $26,197 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $24,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,666 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $8,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $7,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE METH-WICK COMMUNITY INC — $6,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRONS OF THE PERFORMING ARTS AT WASHINGTON HIGH — $6,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTHCARE — $5,056 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Cedar Rapids …Alliant Energy Founda…Mercy Medical CenterGreenState Credit Uni…Carleen and Eugene Gr…John P & Lawrence J G…United Way of East Ce…Fairfax State Bk Char…First Federal Credit …The McIntyre Foundati…The Hall-Perrine Foun…United Fire Group Fou…
Greater Cedar Rapids Community FoundationIA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mercy Medical Center · GreenState Credit Union · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · United Way of East Central Iowa · Fairfax State Bk Charitable Trust · First Federal Credit Union Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group 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 St Luke's Methodist Hospital 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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