Missouri · Nonprofit
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,710 to it, the largest being PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ($1,003,098). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $351k
What Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care 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.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The assets (except for excluded assets) of Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care were sold or transferred during the tax year, see form 990, schedule n. After the assets were sold, the provision of hospice services began winding down.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
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. Hospice services, inpatient unit: 897 patients were cared for in the hospice program. The average daily census (adc) during fy25, was 114, with an average length of service of 39 days. 76% of all inpatient hospice care was provided through the ark, the inpatient unit. The average daily census was 6.5 with care provided for a total of 311 patients during fy25.
$8,422,640 spent$6,912,707 earned by the program100% of program spendingBereavement services: these services include grief support groups, mailings, special events and workshops. Bereavement contacts during fy25 totaled 6,081. Contacts are defined as touchpoints and therapeutic interventions including the mailing program, sympathy cards, invitation to memorial services, hospice outreach calls, hospice counseling, hospice workshops, community intervention, and intake & phone.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,422,640.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.5M to $2.9M (−48%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2022 1% · 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. 4 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
Polly Davenport
Director/President & CEO, ASCENSION ILLINOIS
Board chair
Clayton Bond
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $18k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alexian Brothers Health System). These are real filings, and they are not money Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care raised.
From the IRS filings of Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care’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
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 88% · 2019 95% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 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
13% of Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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.
Organizations like Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 379 related entities
- Affinity Health System · exempt
- Alabama Providence Healthcare Services · exempt
- Alexian Brothers Ambulatory Group · exempt
- Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital · exempt
- Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care: 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 Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care?
- Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,710 to it, the largest being PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ($1,003,098). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,295,710 in grants to Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care?
- PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $1,003,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care 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.
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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 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