Missouri · Nonprofit
St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City
St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,661,206 to it, the largest being Saint Lukes Foundation ($97,214,822). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.2B
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $108M
- Net assets
- $1.3B
What St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City does
Mission
Saint luke's hospital is a not-for-profit tertiary referral center committed to the highest levels of excellence in providing health services to all patients in a caring environment. We are dedicated to medical research and education. As a member of the saint luke's health system we are committed to enhancing the physical, mental and spiritual health of the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Hospital care: all program service expenses were incurred in furtherance of our mission, which is to ensure the highest levels of excellence in providing health care services to all patients in a caring environment. Saint luke's hospital is a full-service health care facility featuring award-winning heart surgery, nationally recognized transplant programs, a state-of-the-art women's health center, trauma services, adolescent and family mental health treatment services, and more. The hospital participates in the medicaid and medicare programs and has a financial assistance policy for assisting people without adequate means to pay for their care. The hospital has over 500 active physicians and continues to advance treatment options through landmark research studies. Research, education, and teaching: in addition to the substantial amount of free care provided, saint luke's hospital has made a major commitment to medical and nursing education. This includes the significant funding requirements to maintain an accredited teaching affiliation and provide for the training of residents in various medical specialties or sub-specialties. Saint luke's hospital also provides training programs…
$973,728,652 spentof which $143,333,870 as grants$1,085,255,703 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $973,728,652.
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.
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 $1.4B to $1.6B (+17%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $11M → $16M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Lukes Hospital of Kansas City’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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 Lukes Hospital of Kansas City leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
99% 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 Lukes Hospital of Kansas City.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 72% — 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
70% of St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $851k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Lukes Hospital of Kansas City runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,981 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,981 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Organizations like St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 33 related entities
- Crittenton LLC · disregarded
- Saint Lukes Health System · exempt
- Saint Lukes North Hospital · exempt
- Saint Lukes South Hospital · exempt
- Saint Lukes East Hospital · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City?
- St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,661,206 to it, the largest being Saint Lukes Foundation ($97,214,822). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $107,661,206 in grants to St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City?
- Saint Lukes Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $97,214,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City 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 28 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