Missouri · Nonprofit
ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC
ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,462 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($1,270,083). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $238M
What Ascension via Christi Hospitals Wichita 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. Ascension via christi hospitals wichita, inc. Is a 659-bed hospital campus providing services without regard to patient race, creed, national origin, economic status, or ability to pay. During fiscal year 2025. Ascension via christi hospitals wichita, inc. Treated 27,384 adults and children for a total of 159,948 patient days of service. The hospital also provided services for 306,875 outpatient visits, which included 10,670 outpatient surgeries and 91,874 emergency room visits. See schedule h for a non-exhaustive list of community benefit programs and descriptions.
$630,731,213 spentof which $20,000 as grants$821,266,424 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $630,731,213.
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 2023 to 2024, from $349M to $380M (+9%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Sister Anne Delores Laplante Csj
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $161k → $493k.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $13M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Via Christi Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 17 funders by total. 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 HOSPITALS WICHITA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 HOSPITALS WICHITA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 60% · 2019 72% · 2020 65% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 HOSPITALS WICHITA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HOSPITALS WICHITA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA 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
79% 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 HOSPITALS WICHITA INC?
- ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,462 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($1,270,083). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,033,462 in grants to ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC?
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,270,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA 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 17 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