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COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC

COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,133 to it, the largest being ASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC ($235,826). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$183M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$527k
Net assets
$-385315064
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Columbia St Mary's 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

  1. 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. Columbia st. Mary's, inc. Exists as the parent corporation in the columbia st. Mary's system, which is comprised of 3 hospitals, (columbia st. Mary's hospital - milwaukee, columbia st. Mary's hospital - ozaukee, and sacred heart rehabilitation institute), community clinics, and several partnerships, including with the orthopaedic hospital of wisconsin.

    $159,345,557 spentof which $57,600 as grants$180,220,418 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,345,557.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($207M) Expenses 100 ($208M)2018 Revenue 152 ($313M) Expenses 159 ($332M)2019 Revenue 115 ($238M) Expenses 102 ($214M)2020 Revenue 135 ($278M) Expenses 119 ($248M)2021 Revenue 142 ($293M) Expenses 134 ($280M)2022 Revenue 106 ($219M) Expenses 107 ($222M)2023 Revenue 95 ($196M) Expenses 95 ($198M)2024 Revenue 95 ($195M) Expenses 97 ($201M)2025 Revenue 89 ($183M) Expenses 89 ($186M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (89)Peer revenue range

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 $193M to $297M (+54%).

$215M
$252M
$173M
$193M
$297M
$277M
$285M
$267M
$230M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.8M
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−$19M
’18
$25M
’19
$30M
’20
$13M
’21
−$3.8M
’22
−$2.2M
’23
−$6.0M
’24
−$2.5M
’25
0.1
months of
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 W Jackson

CEO, ministry market

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed2017
Joined·+2
No longer listed·5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $60k → $19k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC raised.

From the IRS filings of COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC.

45%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 33% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 47% · 2023 48% — 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

25% of COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

78% of COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

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MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $527k to it.

Operating margin−1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like COLUMBIA ST MARY'S 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 382 related entities

  • Ascension Wisconsin Surgery Center - Mount Pleasant LLC · disregarded
  • Ascension Wisconsin Surgery Center - River Woods LLC · disregarded
  • Premier Radiology Wisconsin LLC · disregarded
  • Affinity Health System · exempt
  • Alabama Providence Healthcare Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC?
COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,133 to it, the largest being ASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC ($235,826). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $527,133 in grants to COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC?
ASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $235,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLUMBIA ST MARY'S 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 10 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