Arizona · Nonprofit
DIGNITY HEALTH
DIGNITY HEALTH (Arizona) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,343,924 to it, the largest being BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ($193,011,818). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11.6B
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $576M
- Net assets
- $10.6B
What Dignity Health does
Mission
As an affiliate of commonspirit health (commonspirit), Dignity Health is committed to making the healing presence of god known in our work by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dignity Health is a california nonprofit public benefit corporation. Dignity Health owns and operates 22 hospitals throughout major california divisions and in the arizona and nevada divisions during the year ended june 30, 2025. Dignity Health and its subordinate corporations' facilities included approximately 4,912 licensed acute care beds and approximately 169 licensed skilled nursing beds as of june 30, 2025. Dignity Health maintains a prominent market share in many of its divisional areas, and many of its hospitals rank among the finest in the nation. With a significant presence in greater sacramento, san francisco bay area, southern california, central coast, central california, and northern california, Dignity Health's california operations are well dispersed throughout the state. Dignity Health's hospitals operate emergency rooms that are open to all persons regardless of ability to pay; have community boards in which primarily independent persons representative of the community comprise a majority; engage in the training and education of healthcare professionals; and participate in medicaid, medicare, tricare and/or other government-sponsored health care programs. This…
$9,752,536,508 spentof which $321,863,132 as grants$10,328,225,072 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,752,536,508.
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 2024 to 2025, from $18.8B to $22.8B (+21%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of DIGNITY HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Chief executive
Wright L Lassiter Iii
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Terika Richardson Mph Fache
Chair/ president & chief operating officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 27 funders, grant income rose $47M → $88M.
6 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $861M from 26 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dignity Community Care); $10M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Woodland Memorial Hospital Foundation Dba Woodland Healthcare Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DIGNITY HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of DIGNITY HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
DIGNITY HEALTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 DIGNITY HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 50% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 54% — 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
43% of DIGNITY HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
82% of DIGNITY HEALTH's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $508k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DIGNITY HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DIGNITY HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126.7M on record — $126.7M federal, $645 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$104.2M
- Department of Defense$22.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$358k
- National Science Foundation$150k
- Consumer Product Safety Commission$38k
- MA$588
- FL$57
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 DIGNITY HEALTH
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 339 related entities
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- Alegent Health - Comm Mem Hospital of Mo Valley Ia · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIGNITY HEALTH: 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 DIGNITY HEALTH?
- DIGNITY HEALTH (Arizona) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,343,924 to it, the largest being BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ($193,011,818). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIGNITY HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $576,343,924 in grants to DIGNITY HEALTH, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIGNITY HEALTH?
- BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,011,818 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIGNITY HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing