Ascension Health Alliance
St Louis, MO · EIN 45-3358926. Reported 65 grants totalling $150.3M to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 67% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $400,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $100.0M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $100.6M | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Marys Healthcare | Amersterdam, NY | $23.6M | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Seton Heritage Ministries Inc | Emmitsburg, MD | $5,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Community Foundation for the Csra | Augusta, GA | $4,038,806 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ascension Health Global Mission | Saint Louis, MO | $3,800,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Catholic University of America | Washington, DC | $3,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ascension Health | Saint Louis, MO | $2,852,892 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Saint Thomas Health | Saint Louis, MO | $2,484,992 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | Pompano Beach, FL | $1,490,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Healthy Woman Womens Clinics of | Tallahassee, FL | $555,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dynamic Catholic Institute | Cincinnati, OH | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $408,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dcha Program Services Company Inc | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Global Solidarity Fund | Washington, DC | $297,557 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Archdiocese of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Npower Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of West Alabama | Livingston, AL | $126,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| CASA De Salud | Saint Louis, MO | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Concordance Academy of Leadership | Saint Louis, MO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metropolitan Golf Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alexian Brothers Health System | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Particular Council East St Louis | E St Louis, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ozzie Smith Charitable Foundation Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Covenant House Missouri | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Tee of Greater Kansas City | Prairie Vlg, KS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nicklaus Childrens Health Care Foundation Inc | Juno Beach, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transit Matters-Mi | Lansing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aquinas Institute of Theology | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ascension Depaul Services | San Antonio, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Edgar Dooky JR and Leah Chase Family Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marian University | Indianapolis, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Troy University | Troy, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blues for Kids | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Centro Geriatrico San Rafael | Arecibo, PR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Centro San Vicente | El Paso, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Elevate St Louis | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Providence Foundation | Mobile, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seton Center Inc | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Alberts College | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
14 of 45 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
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To establish an Online Acute Care Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program at the Conway School of Nursing - Seton Heritage Ministries Inc
In recognition of the work of the Daughters of Charity and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton - Cross Catholic Outreach Inc
To support the health and well-being of impoverished children and families - The Dynamic Catholic Institute
TO SUPPORT REENERGIZINGTHECATHOLICCHURCHINAMERICA - Dcha Program Services Company Inc
To Support the health and wellbeing of district residents - Concordance Academy of Leadership
To support Restoring individuals, rebuilding families,transforming communities
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 | $31.2M | $100,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $106.3M | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $7,835,783 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $4,993,379 | $329,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
74% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ascension Health Alliance's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Tax Department Po Box 45998, St Louis, MO, 63145.
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