Missouri · Nonprofit
THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL
THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL (Missouri) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,030,555 to it, the largest being BJC HEALTH SYSTEM GROUP RETURN ($109,411,000). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 163
- Grants received
- $152M
- Net assets
- $755M
What The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital does
Mission
The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital helps donors enrich lives, and transform patient care through charitable gifts. Every gift to the foundation helps transform patient care at barnes-jewish hospital, one of america's top hospitals, (see schedule o) and our affiliates by funding innovative research, medical education for doctors, nurses and pharmacists, technology and equipment, care essentials for patients in need, and community outreach to promote health and wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research: the foundation supported biomedical and clinical translational research to enhance patient safety, elevate the standards of care, improve quality of life, make breakthroughs in treatment/recovery and win the fight against devastating diseases. This included support for the bjc investigators program, in which the objective is to promote human knowledge within the fields of basic and applied medical science with a focus on the researchers and not the projects. These discoveries will change healthcare regionally, nationally, and internationally. We disburse research funding primarily to physicians and researchers affiliated with barnes-jewish hospital, siteman cancer center and/or barnes-jewish goldfarb school of nursing.
$37,837,023 spentof which $37,837,023 as grants70% of program spendingEducation/scholarships: more than one-third of the total distribution for 2024 is in support of student scholarships at goldfarb school of nursing (gson). These scholarships help reduce financial barriers and increase access to nursing education, ensuring a diverse and well-prepared nursing workforce. Nearly another third of the total is allocated for education and program support. This includes funding for goldfarb school of nursing initiatives, emergency department nursing education and educators for the deaf. The last two categories combined make up the final third of the total and share a common goal of enhancing professional development and advancing educational excellence. Workforce education supports grand rounds, ethics lectures, doula trainings, and continuing education conferences. The final category supports faculty development such as research awards, outstanding faculty awards, sponsorships, lectureships, symposiums, and other education-related activities.
$3,699,102 spentof which $3,699,102 as grants7% of program spendingRecruitment: the foundation supports the recruitment of top physicians and researchers to barnes-jewish hosptial and washington university faculty positions and supports the exceptional work national leaders in medicine on the washington university campus. Funds from the foundation supported the division of pediatric medicine.
$3,113,336 spentof which $3,113,336 as grants6% of program spendingPatient support, capital, community service/outreach, community grants, chairholders and general operations: the foundation provided funding to barnes-jewish hospital and washington university, including siteman cancer center, to support the hospital's mission through developing and maintaining related programs and services that offer supplemental approaches to clinic care, advance education and research priorities, and enhance the patient environment while on campus and upon discharge. The foundation supported community partners that focus on increasing the overall health in our region. The foundation supported chairholders ratified by the board of directors. Chair appointments recognize top physicians and researchers performing exceptional work and those that are national leaders in medicine on the washington university campus. Funds from the foundation supported the departments of internal medicine and surgery
$9,093,531 spentof which $9,093,531 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,742,992.
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 2021 to 2022, from $993M to $879M (−11%).
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.
25% of THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Gupta Mahendra
Chairman, director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 68 funders, grant income fell $111M → $3.7M.
32 of 163 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $28M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Pedal the Cause). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 163 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
THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 85% · 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 22% — 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
51% of THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
95% of THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 38 related entities
- Alton Memorial Health Services Foundation · exempt
- Alton Memorial Hospital Charitable Trust · exempt
- Barnes Jewish St Peters & Progress West Foundation · exempt
- Christian Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Fairview Heights Medical Group Sc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL?
- THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL (Missouri) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,030,555 to it, the largest being BJC HEALTH SYSTEM GROUP RETURN ($109,411,000). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 163 organizations giving $152,030,555 in grants to THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL?
- BJC HEALTH SYSTEM GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $109,411,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 163 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