Missouri · Nonprofit
SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION
SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,482 to it, the largest being THE BRUNING FOUNDATION ($120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation 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
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. The Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation was established in 1984 to support and promote the quality medical services provided by saint thomas rutherford hospital and to raise and manage philanthropic gifts to further the hospital's healing ministry. Contributions to the foundation support direct care of the poor, education, new equipment, facilities and the dispensary of hope, the saint louise clinic, the power of pink and the mobile health unit.
$1,073,123 spentof which $1,033,820 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,073,123.
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 $9.0M to $15M (+69%).
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 10% · 2018 2% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Fahad Tahir
President/CEO, ministry market
Board chair
Dave Davis Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $37k → $15k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $5.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION 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. $32k 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 SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION: 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 RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION?
- SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,482 to it, the largest being THE BRUNING FOUNDATION ($120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $155,482 in grants to SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION?
- THE BRUNING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION 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 7 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