New York · Nonprofit
Catholic Health System
Catholic Health System (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,912 to it, the largest being NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ($1,034,175). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $210M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $148M
What Catholic Health System does
Mission
The Mission of the Catholic Health System, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in an acute care, long term care, home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of the Catholic Health System continue the healing ministry of Jesus, seeking to improve the health of individuals and communities. We provide high quality service that has reverence, compassion, justice, and excellence. The 2024 Community Service Plan can be found at https://www.chsbuffalo.org/about-us/community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Catholic Health System (CHS) provides administrative support services to the Catholic Health System entities which include: Acute Care, Continuing Care, Home Care, and Primary Care services. The program services are support services that are provided for the benefits of the health care delivery system. These include Compliance, Facility Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal Services, Marketing, Revenue Management Center, and other services. More information can be found on the Catholic Health System website www.CHSBUFFALO.ORG.
$204,218,384 spent$204,979,347 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,218,384.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $410M to $561M (+37%).
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 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Joyce Markiewicz
President & Chief Executive Officer Administration
Board chair
Maureen M Athoe CPA
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $25.
2 of 9 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: $102k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Catholic Health System raised.
From the IRS filings of Catholic Health System’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
Catholic Health System leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Catholic Health System.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2019 98% · 2020 66% · 2021 98% · 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
14% of Catholic Health System'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
Catholic Health System draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Government funding Catholic Health System receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $881k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$881k
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 Catholic Health System
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- Mercy Hospital of Buffalo · exempt
- Sisters of Charity Hospital · exempt
- Kenmore Mercy Hospital · exempt
- Nazareth Home of the Franciscan Sisters · exempt
- St Elizabeth Home for the Aged · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Catholic Health System: 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 Catholic Health System?
- Catholic Health System (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,912 to it, the largest being NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ($1,034,175). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Catholic Health System have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,281,912 in grants to Catholic Health System, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Catholic Health System?
- NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Catholic Health System find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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