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St Mary's Medical Center

Throughout essentia health, we are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.4M
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$25MHuman Services$148kEducation$119kPublic Benefit$103kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$58kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,435,004
Median grant
1
States reached
$981M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC$2,435,004
ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,023,133
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 (FY17–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $10k → 15%YMCA OF DULUTH: $24k → 15%YMCA OF DULUTH: $16k → 15%YWCA of Duluth: $10k → 15%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.
$25M · 6 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$25M
$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DG
    DULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +34% · 29% of their budget
  • EH
    ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +105%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $69k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • EE
    Elevating Education MN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · 39% of their budget
  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • GH
    GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +32%
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
First Community Health Foundaton
Health
2
Duluth Community School Collaborative

Duluth community school collaborative promotes wellbeing and success for duluth public schools students and families by co-creating, celebrating, and mobilizing for equitable educational experiences.

Education
3
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
4
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
5
Essentia Institute of Rural Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
6
Fairview Health Services

Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…

Health
7
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
8
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
9
The Anika Foundation

Our mission is to promote health equity, civic engagement and economic empowerment. We serve as a catalyst for change, dedicated to improving the quality of life in underrepresented communities.

Human Services
10
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
11
Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance

The minnesota community health worker alliance builds community and systems capacity for better health through the integration of community health worker (chw) strategies. our vision is equitable and optimal outcomes for all communities.…

Health
12
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duluth Area Family Ymca; the most unlike its peers is Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC: $17,947,767 · OtherDULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC+7 more: $230,627 · OtherESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,017,347 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION+2 more: $51,500 · HealthElevating Education MN: $100,000 · EducationDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $49,625 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $41,000 · Food & NutritionECOLIBRIUM3: $25,000 · EnvironmentDULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM: $10,000 · EnvironmentNORTHERN EXPRESSIONS ARTS COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,178,394Health$7,068,847Education$100,000Human Services$81,625Housing & Shelter$50,000Food & Nutrition$41,000Environment$35,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 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
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.

Smdc Medical CenterLloyd K Johnson Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Ordean FoundationNorthland FoundationMinnesota Power Found…Otto Bremer TrustPachel FoundationHead of the Lakes Uni…Mardag FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization St Mary's Medical Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Mary's Medical Center. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    6report 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.

    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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