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Saint Lukes Health System Inc

Saint Lukes Health System Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,970,785 to it, the largest being Saint Lukes East Hospital ($34,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$283M
Revenue FY2023
9
Funders on record
$79M
Grants received
$92M
Net assets
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

Saint Lukes Health System Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,981 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,981 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($233M) Expenses 100 ($207M) Net assets 100 ($79M)2018 Revenue 100 ($233M) Expenses 119 ($246M) Net assets 70 ($55M)2019 Revenue 118 ($274M) Expenses 129 ($266M) Net assets 63 ($50M)2020 Revenue 110 ($257M) Expenses 142 ($294M) Net assets 0 ($188k)2021 Revenue 112 ($261M) Expenses 115 ($238M) Net assets 60 ($48M)2022 Revenue 112 ($261M) Expenses 125 ($257M) Net assets 111 ($88M)2023 Revenue 122 ($283M) Expenses 136 ($280M) Net assets 118 ($92M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (122)Expenses (136)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

4% of Saint Lukes Health System Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$26M
17
$13M
18
$8.2M
19
$37M
20
$24M
21
$3.1M
22
$2.8M
23
5.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $29M → $13M.

From the IRS filings of Saint Lukes Health System Inc’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

Saint Lukes Health System Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Saint Lukes Health System Inc.

43%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 62% · 2023 96%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

20% of Saint Lukes Health System Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 Saint Lukes Health System Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

NY
MO
KS

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Saint Lukes Health System Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
69%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 34 related entities

  • Saint Luke's Neighborhood Clinics LLC · disregarded
  • Saint Lukes 247 Virtual Care LLC · disregarded
  • St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City · exempt
  • Saint Lukes North Hospital · exempt
  • Saint Lukes South Hospital · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Saint Lukes Health System Inc: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Saint Lukes Health System Inc?
Saint Lukes Health System Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,970,785 to it, the largest being Saint Lukes East Hospital ($34,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Saint Lukes Health System Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $78,970,785 in grants to Saint Lukes Health System Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Saint Lukes Health System Inc?
Saint Lukes East Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $34,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Saint Lukes Health System 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing