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Saint Thomas Medical Partners

Saint Thomas Medical Partners (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,704,896 to it, the largest being Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital ($3,657,417). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$366M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$18M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Saint Thomas Medical Partners 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.

Program

  1. 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. Saint Thomas Medical Partners is a group of multi-specialty physicians dedicated to providing the community with the highest possible quality medical care. The group specialties include internal medicine, family practice, neurology, gastroenterology, pulmonary disease and cardiology. Throughout the history of the practice, we have continued to offer our patients the latest in medical technology; we have expanded our medical knowledge, and we have trained in the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques. Our number one priority is to provide our patients and their families with outstanding medical care.

    $406,984,819 spentof which $52,625 as grants$357,183,516 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $406,984,819.

02The 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 ($136M) Expenses 100 ($170M) Net assets -1070 ($-11031647)2018 Revenue 112 ($152M) Expenses 99 ($169M) Net assets -47 ($-479841)2019 Revenue 111 ($151M) Expenses 116 ($198M) Net assets -93 ($-961173)2020 Revenue 156 ($212M) Expenses 188 ($320M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 178 ($242M) Expenses 204 ($348M) Net assets 32 ($335k)2022 Revenue 188 ($255M) Expenses 211 ($359M) Net assets -896 ($-9235020)2023 Revenue 194 ($263M) Expenses 220 ($374M) Net assets -940 ($-9693928)2024 Revenue 228 ($310M) Expenses 234 ($399M) Net assets 1003 ($10M)2025 Revenue 269 ($366M) Expenses 273 ($465M) Net assets 1699 ($18M)
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Revenue (269)Expenses (273)Net assets (1699)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $53M to $98M (+86%).

$31M
$39M
$53M
$98M
$115M
$116M
$107M
$115M
$125M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of Saint Thomas Medical Partners’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34M
’17
−$17M
’18
−$47M
’19
−$107M
’20
−$106M
’21
−$104M
’22
−$111M
’23
−$89M
’24
−$99M
’25
0.0
months of
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

Fahad Tahir

Ex-officio/CEO, ministry market

Board chair

Mark F Aaron Md

Chair/chief medical officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed2022
Joined·+5
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3.7M → $10k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $33M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Thomas West Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money Saint Thomas Medical Partners raised.

From the IRS filings of Saint Thomas Medical Partners’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 Thomas Medical Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Thomas Medical Partners.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

99% of Saint Thomas Medical Partners's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Saint Thomas Medical Partners has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like Saint Thomas Medical Partners

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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 Saint Thomas Medical Partners: 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 Saint Thomas Medical Partners?
Saint Thomas Medical Partners (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,704,896 to it, the largest being Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital ($3,657,417). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Saint Thomas Medical Partners have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,704,896 in grants to Saint Thomas Medical Partners.
Who is the largest funder of Saint Thomas Medical Partners?
Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $3,657,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Saint Thomas Medical Partners 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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