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ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION

ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,683,843 to it, the largest being HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ($1,281,552). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$28M
14/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Ascension Borgess Foundation does

Mission

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 which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The filing organization is a part of the ascension catholic health ministry. Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization that delivers personalized, compassionate care to all, especially to those who need it the most. Since 1972, the Ascension Borgess Foundation has continued the rich tradition of philanthropy in support of health care and related services at ascension borgess. Our primary focus is on assisting essential local projects that will help make comprehensive health care services accessible to everyone. Unrestricted gifts to the Ascension Borgess Foundation are directed by our trustees to the areas determined to be of greatest need. There are also a number of restricted funds that support the designated interest of our donors.

    $5,208,741 spentof which $5,130,970 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,208,741.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($796k) Net assets 100 ($22M)2018 Revenue 133 ($3.9M) Expenses 249 ($2.0M) Net assets 114 ($25M)2019 Revenue 87 ($2.5M) Expenses 183 ($1.5M) Net assets 119 ($26M)2020 Revenue 43 ($1.3M) Expenses 165 ($1.3M) Net assets 127 ($28M)2021 Revenue 50 ($1.5M) Expenses 129 ($1.0M) Net assets 160 ($35M)2022 Revenue 179 ($5.3M) Expenses 707 ($5.6M) Net assets 134 ($29M)2023 Revenue 98 ($2.9M) Expenses 450 ($3.6M) Net assets 127 ($28M)2024 Revenue 117 ($3.5M) Expenses 399 ($3.2M) Net assets 135 ($30M)2025 Revenue 148 ($4.3M) Expenses 763 ($6.1M) Net assets 127 ($28M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (763)Net assets (127)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $23M to $27M (+17%).

$23M
$27M
$30M
$33M
$36M
$32M
$28M
$30M
$28M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$1.1M
’19
−$49k
’20
$454k
’21
−$367k
’22
−$706k
’23
$272k
’24
−$1.7M
’25
6.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

J Joseph Brogger Ii

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed2519
Joined·+3
No longer listed·9
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $161k → $646k.

3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ascension Borgess Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION.

48%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 53% · 2019 73% · 2020 78% · 2021 79% · 2022 56% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

42% of ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.

IL
MI
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $486k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 3%Fundraising 12%

Governance

16
board members
69%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 379 related entities

  • Affinity Health System · exempt
  • Alabama Providence Healthcare Services · exempt
  • Alexian Brothers Ambulatory Group · exempt
  • Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital · exempt
  • Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION?
ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,683,843 to it, the largest being HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ($1,281,552). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,683,843 in grants to ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION?
HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,281,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing