South Dakota · Nonprofit
Avera St Luke's
Avera St Luke's (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,060 to it, the largest being SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ($263,072). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $194M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $363k
- Net assets
- $75M
What Avera St Luke's does
Mission
Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by Christian values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Avera St. Luke's mission is to provide healthcare services to Aberdeen, South Dakota residents and residents of the surrounding area. Avera St. Luke's is a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Avera Health. Avera St. Luke's consists of 50 acute beds, 10 inpatient behavioral health beds, an 81-bed nursing home in Aberdeen, SD, a 56-bed nursing home in Eureka, SD, a 2-bed surgical center in Aberdeen, SD, and 17 physician clinics. The physician clinics include primary care, ob/gyn, pediatrics, orthopedics, general surgery, radiation, radiology, oncology, therapy, urology, hematology, psychiatry, pulmonology, nephrology, podiatry, ear nose and throat, pain management, and cardiology. Avera St. Luke's provides acute care and long-term healthcare services. Avera St. Luke's Hospital 3,373 Acute patient discharges 340 Newborn patient discharges 42 Swing bed patient discharges 151,586 Outpatient visits 424 Swing-bed patient days 580 Newborn patient days 144,497 Clinic visits 46,871 Nursing home resident days 109 Long Term Care patient dischargesAvera St. Luke's maintains records to identify and monitor the level of charity care it provides. These records include the amount of charges…
$183,363,383 spentof which $4,180 as grants$189,401,049 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $183,363,383.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $163M to $188M (+16%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Avera St Luke's’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. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Bjerknes
President/CEO
Board chair
Heidi Golz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $32k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $178k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mitchell United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money Avera St Luke's raised.
From the IRS filings of Avera St Luke's’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
Avera St Luke's leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Avera St Luke's.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 61% · 2021 79% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Avera St Luke's's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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.
Against its field
Avera St Luke's's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Avera St Luke's receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $169k on record.
- Consumer Product Safety Commission$110k
- Department of Health and Human Services$59k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Avera St Luke's
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 33 related entities
- Avera Health · exempt
- Avera McKennan · exempt
- Avera at Home · exempt
- Avera Health Plans Inc · exempt
- Avera Marshall · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Avera St Luke's: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Avera St Luke's?
- Avera St Luke's (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,060 to it, the largest being SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ($263,072). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Avera St Luke's have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $363,060 in grants to Avera St Luke's, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Avera St Luke's?
- SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $263,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Avera St Luke's find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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