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ST BERNARD HOSPITAL

ST BERNARD HOSPITAL (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,072,624 to it, the largest being LE ROYER FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$155M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$28M
13/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What St Bernard Hospital does

Mission

Since founded in 1904 by the religious hospitallers of saint joseph, a catholic facility now sponsored by catholic health international, st. Bernard hospital (sbh) aspires to live the healing mission of christ within the south side community of chicago. (continued on scheduled o)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. St. Bernard hospital offers a full continuum of inpatient services including medical surgical services, icu, telemetry, obstetrics, nursery, neonatology, medical detox, and inpatient mental health services. During 2025 st. Bernard hospital provided 19,324 inpatient days of service to 3,469 patients. In addition, the hospital had 1,764 mental health admissions.

    $64,842,588 spent$62,769,983 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  2. During 2025 st. Bernard hospital provided a full range of outpatient diagnostic treatment to 85,273 outpatients. Such services included lab work, x-rays, ultrasounds, nuclear medicine, ct scans, mammography services, ekg's, and eeg's. St. Bernard hospital also operates a number of different clinics. Clinics of st. Bernard hospital are open to treat asthma, orthopedic and podiatric patients. In addition, st. Bernard hospital operates a dental clinic, which opened in 2007, geared toward treating children, that treated 2,297 children and 2,142, adults in 2025. The hospital also operates a mobile medical unit program, which was opened in 2003, it treated 1,669 patients to provide immunizations and 1,544 school physicals to the children in englewood and other neighborhoods on the south side of chicago.

    $38,494,685 spent$37,264,255 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  3. During 2025 emergency room services were provided to 30,005 patients. The emergency room of st. Bernard hospital serves as the psychiatric triage center for the south side of chicago community. The emergency room also includes a fast track treatment area as a way to faster treat patients with less severe medical conditions. This enables st. Bernard hospital to give its patients the responsive and immediate treatment they deserve.

    $26,455,617 spent$25,609,999 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  4. The organization receives other program service revenue related to anesthesia, dental and ortho services, the rental of space for its physicians, as well as other revenue from maintenance and medical records.

    $0 spent$5,077,909 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,792,890.

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 ($89M) Expenses 100 ($104M) Net assets 100 ($51M)2018 Revenue 104 ($93M) Expenses 94 ($98M) Net assets 101 ($52M)2019 Revenue 114 ($101M) Expenses 98 ($102M) Net assets 108 ($55M)2020 Revenue 135 ($120M) Expenses 100 ($104M) Net assets 144 ($74M)2021 Revenue 118 ($105M) Expenses 105 ($109M) Net assets 135 ($69M)2022 Revenue 132 ($117M) Expenses 131 ($136M) Net assets 97 ($50M)2023 Revenue 138 ($123M) Expenses 126 ($131M) Net assets 43 ($22M)2024 Revenue 124 ($110M) Expenses 136 ($142M) Net assets 13 ($6.8M)2025 Revenue 175 ($155M) Expenses 132 ($138M) Net assets 55 ($28M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (132)Net assets (55)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 2022 to 2023, from $101M to $66M (−35%).

$100M
$96M
$95M
$113M
$104M
$101M
$66M
$55M
$75M
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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: 2020 20% · 2021 7% · 2023 20% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of ST BERNARD HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15M
’17
−$5.5M
’18
−$912k
’19
$15M
’20
−$4.6M
’21
−$19M
’22
−$8.2M
’23
−$32M
’24
$17M
’25
2.8
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

Charles Holland Jr

President & CEO

Board chair

Patricia Merryweather-Arges

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed2324
Joined·+3
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $686k → $835k.

2 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ST BERNARD HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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

ST BERNARD HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 ST BERNARD HOSPITAL.

45%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 44% · 2019 49% · 2020 40% · 2021 79% · 2022 82% · 2023 90% — 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

9% of ST BERNARD HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of ST BERNARD HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
CO
NC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST BERNARD HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like ST BERNARD HOSPITAL

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Foundation for Emergency Services · disregarded
  • Foundation for Outreach Services · disregarded
  • St Bernard Health Network · exempt
  • St Bernard Housing Development Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST BERNARD HOSPITAL?
ST BERNARD HOSPITAL (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,072,624 to it, the largest being LE ROYER FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST BERNARD HOSPITAL have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $11,072,624 in grants to ST BERNARD HOSPITAL, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST BERNARD HOSPITAL?
LE ROYER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST BERNARD HOSPITAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing