South Carolina · Nonprofit
Roper St Francis Foundation
Roper St Francis Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,995,989 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($3,650,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $47M
What Roper St Francis Foundation does
Mission
The Roper St. Francis Foundation's mission is to advance the Roper St. Francis Healthcare mission of healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence through philanthropy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Roper St. Francis Foundation supports the health and well-being of the coastal South Carolina counties served by Roper St. Francis Healthcare by securing philanthropic support for the System's priority capital and programmatic initiatives. The foundation is charged with identifying, securing, and managing financial resources to support facility projects and healthcare services for the system's four hospitals as well as additional facilities located across Lowcountry. In 2024, the Foundation raised $11.5 million to advance the non-profit System's mission.
$4,444,995 spentof which $4,444,995 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,444,995.
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 $53M to $39M (−27%).
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 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 22% · 2020 31% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Roper St Francis Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Joseph DeLeon
Board Member, RSFH President/CEO (Beg 08/24)
Board chair
David Ellison MD
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $527k → $3.8M.
13 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $1.9M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Roper St Francis Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Roper St Francis Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
Roper St Francis Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
35% 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 Roper St Francis Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 46% · 2019 77% · 2020 59% · 2021 37% · 2022 66% · 2023 53% — 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
47% of Roper St Francis Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Roper St Francis Foundation draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
Roper St Francis Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Roper St Francis Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $610k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$610k
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 Roper St Francis 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 143 related entities
- Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · exempt
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc · exempt
- Bon Secours Ireland DAC · exempt
- Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · exempt
- Bon Secours New Jersey Health System Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation?
- Roper St Francis Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,995,989 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($3,650,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Roper St Francis Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $12,995,989 in grants to Roper St Francis Foundation, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Roper St Francis Foundation?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $3,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Roper St Francis Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 73 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