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St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc

We reveal and foster god's healing love by improving the health of the people and communities we serve, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$41MRecreation & Sports$208kHousing & Shelter$134kReligion$120kEducation$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kArts & Culture$22kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $3,579,401 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,856,809 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $277,408 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH$1,765,136
SCL HEALTH - MONTANA DBA ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE$1,572,643
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC$100,000
MONTANA RESCUE MISSION$70,000
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF MONTANA$20,000
NATUROPATHIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC$20,000
MONTANA RESCUE MISSION$14,000
MONTANA YOUTH DISABILITIES ALLIANCE$9,543
THE BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$8,079
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 (FY20–20, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN MINISTRIES INC: $100k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 97% of St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41M · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$41M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • SH
    SCL HEALTH - MONTANA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +43%
  • SO
    SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +71%
  • MA
    MONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $69k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SH
    SCL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $820k · revenue -99%
  • SJ
    St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -9%
  • YC
    YELLOWSTONE COUNTY EDUCATION FOR SAFETY
    one grant, 2019 · $36k

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
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Montana Medical Association

To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.

3
Montana Hospital Association

Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.

4
Scenic Montana Trails
5
Montana Shares Inc

A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.

6
Montana Contractors Association Inc

Promotion and development of montana's construction industry.

7
St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health
8
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
9
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

10
Saint Alphonsus Health System Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint alphonsus health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
12
Sweet Medical Center

Empowering people to live healthy lives.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scl Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nile Foundation. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCL HEALTH - MONTANA — $25,481,849 · HealthSCL HEALTH - MONTANASISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $14,767,762 · HealthSISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC+4 more — $183,535 · HealthSCL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $819,806 · OtherMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $84,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE COUNTY- FINANCE DEPARTMENT — $75,000 · OtherEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $49,600 · Other+6 more — $89,979 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES — $68,616 · Recreation & SportsSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesBILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $12,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNILE Foundation — $16,000 · Food & NutritionBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,850 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $6,430 · Education
Health$40,433,146Other$1,118,385Recreation & Sports$168,616Human Services$100,000Arts & Culture$22,000Food & Nutrition$16,000Education$13,280

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCL HEALTH - MONTANA — $25,481,849 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $14,767,762 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSCL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $819,806 over 1y, 23% of budgetNATUROPATHIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC — $140,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $84,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES — $68,616 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $49,600 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $21,492 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScottish Rite Foundation of Montana — $20,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetNILE Foundation — $16,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetSURGICAL REVIEW CORPORATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA YOUTH DIABETES ALLIANCE INC — $9,543 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $8,079 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $6,430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Scl Health - Montana · Billings Clinic · Mkm Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 24 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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