Arizona · Nonprofit
DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY
DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY (Arizona) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,743,645 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($16,375,270). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Dignity Health Foundation East Valley does
Mission
To support dignity health and dignity community care healthcare facilities and programs in the southeast valley through philanthropy. The foundation's support allows dignity health and dignity community care dba's, chandler regional medical center and mercy gilbert medical center, further their mission by making the healing presence of god known in our world 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
The foundation is an irc sec 509(a)(3) supporting organization to dignity health dba mercy gilbert medical center and dignity community care dba chandler regional medical center ("hospitals"). As a supporting organization, the foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the hospitals which include making payments directly to the hospitals.
$6,544,825 spentof which $6,544,825 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,544,825.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.7M to $17M (+90%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Teresa Lanham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $4.1M.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 86% · 2021 77% · 2022 76% · 2023 49% — 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
44% of DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 338 related entities
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- Alegent Health - Comm Mem Hospital of Mo Valley Ia · exempt
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Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: 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 FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY?
- DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY (Arizona) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,743,645 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($16,375,270). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $21,743,645 in grants to DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $16,375,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY 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 40 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