Illinois · Nonprofit
St Luke's Health Care Foundation
St Luke's Health Care Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,411,308 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($7,534,930). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What St Luke's Health Care Foundation does
Mission
Support faith based health care in Africa, primarily by supporting the operations of a hospital located in Soddo, Ethiopia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides funding for the construction, equipping and operation of the Soddo Christian Hospital in Wolaitta Soddo, Ethiopia, which began operations in January 2005. Since the hospital opened in 2005 over 540,000 patients have been treated. We have completed over 86,000 operations and over 15,000 babies have been born onsite. We operate as one of 21 surgical training hospitals in Africa under a MOU with the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (paacs.net). 19 residents have graduated from the surgical training five year program.
$2,149,134 spentof which $2,077,980 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,149,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.9M to $6.7M (+70%).
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: 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 5% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of St Luke's Health Care Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Stephen Harling
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $111k → $1.9M.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Luke's Health Care Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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 Luke's Health Care Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 77% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 52% — 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
50% of St Luke's Health Care 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
St Luke's Health Care Foundation draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
St Luke's Health Care Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding St Luke's Health Care Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.5M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$149k
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 St Luke's Health Care 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for St Luke's Health Care 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 St Luke's Health Care Foundation?
- St Luke's Health Care Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,411,308 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($7,534,930). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Luke's Health Care Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $10,411,308 in grants to St Luke's Health Care Foundation, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Luke's Health Care Foundation?
- THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,534,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Luke's Health Care Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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