Texas · Nonprofit
CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation
CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,564 to it, the largest being Christus Health Ark-La-Tex ($2,500,938). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation does
Mission
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring congregations") qualifies and approved as a sponsor of christus health ("christus") in accordance with the bylaws of christus without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation's mission shall be to extend the healing ministry of jesus christ, consistent therewith, shall operate according to the doctrines, resolutions, decrees and ethical principles of the sponsoring congregation and the ethical and religious directives for catholic health sevices as promulgated and amended from time to time by the united states catholic conference of bishops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose of the Corporation is to promote philanthropy and charitable giving to provide resources to enhance the ability of CHRISTUS Health Ark-La-Tex in its mission of extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by providing for the community's health needs. In furtherance of those purposes, the Foundation shall solicit and receive charitable gifts and grants to administer and invest and reinvest the same and to apply the whole or any part of the income and the principal exclusively for the benefit of the health care facilities, services and healthy community programs supported or operated by CHRISTUS Health Ark-La-Tex within its service area,for so long as CHRISTUS Health Ark-La-Tex qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501 (c )(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Code or federal tax law.
$636,869 spentof which $636,869 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $636,869.
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 $1.2M to $6.8M (+466%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Susan Landreaux
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $353k → $288k.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTUS St Michael 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
CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 92% · 2021 59% · 2022 80% · 2023 92% — 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
30% of CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
99% of CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like CHRISTUS St Michael 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Christus Health · exempt
- Christus Health Ark-La-Tex · exempt
- Christus Netx and Northern Louisiana Hea · exempt
- Ark-La-Tex Health Network · corp_trust
- Ark Integrated Comm Hlth Ntwk · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation: 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 CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation?
- CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,564 to it, the largest being Christus Health Ark-La-Tex ($2,500,938). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,167,564 in grants to CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation?
- Christus Health Ark-La-Tex is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 18 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