Missouri · Nonprofit
ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC
ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,882 to it, the largest being Riverside Health Foundation ($700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-124078825
What Ascension via Christi Health Inc 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
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. The obligation to reach out to those in need and improve community health flows directly from our identity as a faith-based healing ministry. As a mission-driven organization, we provide community benefit because we are committed to our core values of: 1) service of the poor - generosity of spirit, especially for persons most in need; 2) reverence - respect and compassion for the dignity and diversity of life; 3) integrity - inspiring trust through personal leadership; 4) wisdom - integrating excellence and stewardship; 5) creativity - courageous innovation; and 6) dedication - affirming the hope and joy of our ministry. Ascension via christi health, inc. Works to address the community's needs in many ways, including: 1) hosting blood drives and regularly donating blood in partnership with the american red cross 2) cash donations to organizations and programs that are health-related or address the community's needs 3) participation various community boards,…
$32,135,218 spentof which $1,190,000 as grants$30,376,743 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $32,135,218.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $180M to $223M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Michael Flores
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $488k → $100.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $134k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Via Christi Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC’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 VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 84% · 2019 38% · 2020 99% · 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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 VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC?
- ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,882 to it, the largest being Riverside Health Foundation ($700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,070,882 in grants to ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC?
- Riverside Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 12 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