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St Mary's Medical Center

Throughout essentia health, we are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives. As a member of the essentia health family, st. Mary's medical center's mission as a catholic, benedictine sponsored facility is to promote christ's ministry of holistic healing for all human life with special concern for the poor and powerless.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,435,004
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,435,004
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$981M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations St Mary's Medical Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$3.5M0%
FY20242$3.3M0%
FY202310$3.3M60%
FY20226$3.4M17%
FY20215$3.2M40%
FY20204$2.6M25%
FY20196$2.5M50%
FY20185$1.9M60%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$25MHuman Services$148kEducation$119kPublic Benefit$103kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$58kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of St Mary's Medical Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duluth Graduate Medical Education Council Inc$17,947,767929%
Essentia Health Foundation$7,017,347917%
St Louis County$103,3673n/a
Elevating Education MN$100,000139%
Community Action Duluth Inc$69,23531%
American Indian Community Housing Organization$50,00012%
Duluth Area Family YMCA$49,62530%
Hunger Solutions Minnesota$41,00030%
Generations Health Care Initiatives Inc$27,50012%
Ecolibrium3$25,00013%
National Council for Behavioral Health$24,00010%
Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc$22,00012%
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows$19,4291n/a
Carlton-Cook-Lake-St Louis Community Health Board$14,5751n/a
Northern Expressions Arts Collective$10,0001n/a
Zeigeist Arts LLC$10,0001n/a
Duluth Community Garden Program$10,000110%
Divine Konnections Inc$10,00012%
Arrowhead Area Agency on Aging$7,0211n/a
Duluth Market Gardeners and Berry Assocation Inc$7,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

St Mary's Medical Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuluth Graduate Medical Education Council Inc: $17,947,767 over 9y, 29% of budgetEssentia Health Foundation: $7,017,347 over 9y, 17% of budgetElevating Education MN: $100,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetCommunity Action Duluth Inc: $69,235 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Indian Community Housing Organization: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDuluth Area Family YMCA: $49,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHunger Solutions Minnesota: $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGenerations Health Care Initiatives Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEcolibrium3: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNational Council for Behavioral Health: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDuluth Community Garden Program: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDivine Konnections Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Smdc Medical CenterMN34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smdc Medical Center · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pachel Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Mardag Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis 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.

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About St Mary's Medical Center

How much does St Mary's Medical Center give?
St Mary's Medical Center reported 2 grants totaling $3,503,219 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does St Mary's Medical Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (98%), Human Services (1%), Education (0%).
Who are St Mary's Medical Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duluth Graduate Medical Education Council Inc ($18M), Essentia Health Foundation ($7.0M), St Louis County ($103k).
Does St Mary's Medical Center fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as St Mary's Medical Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Smdc Medical Center, Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation.
Where is St Mary's Medical Center based?
St Mary's Medical Center is based in MN.

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 20 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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