Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc
St Louis, MO · EIN 39-1494981. Reported 77 grants totalling $20.8M to 28 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. For Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $100,075. Half of what it reported fell between $24,999 and $413,592; the smallest was $5,713 and the largest $1,498,603. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia St Marys Hospital Milwaukee Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $6,213,812 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ascension Wisconsin Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $2,842,369 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ascension Medical Group-Southeast Wisconsin Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $2,036,238 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ascension Se Wisconsin Hospital Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $1,992,674 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $1,311,929 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ascension St Elizabeth Foundation Inc | St Louis, MO | $1,064,850 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mercy Health Foundation Inc | St Louis, MO | $910,748 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ascension All Saints Hospital Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $814,425 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ascension All Saints Hospital Foundation Inc | St Louis, MO | $813,236 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ascension Ne Wisconsin Inc | Appleton, WI | $690,621 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Compassus Living Foundation Inc | Brentwood, TN | $474,112 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $378,396 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ascension St Francis Hospital Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $261,987 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Columbia St Mary's Hospital Ozaukee Inc | St Louis, MO | $168,734 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Wishope Inc | Waukesha, WI | $112,255 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital & Clinics Inc | Stevens Point, WI | $111,589 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sanford Health Foundation Marshfield Clinic Inc | Marshfield, WI | $111,574 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ascension St Michael's Hospital Foundation Inc | Stevens Point, WI | $96,843 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ascension Living Franciscan Place | Saint Louis, MO | $82,810 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation | Madison, WI | $75,082 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ministry Home Care LLC | Marshfield, WI | $71,515 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Josephs Alumni Association | Marshfield, WI | $43,831 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Community Services Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $37,539 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Uw-Madison Gar Account Office for Research & Sponsored Programs | Madison, WI | $28,341 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grace Church | Racine, WI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Aspirus Medical Group Northern Wisconsin Inc | Wausau, WI | $18,274 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mooring Programs Incorporated | Appleton, WI | $8,202 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth With a Mission of Montana a Corporation | Lakeside, MT | $5,713 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
21 of 28 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee Inc
General Support/Capital Support - Compassus Living Foundation Inc
Donations for Hospice Services in Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids and Wausau Wisconsin - Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc
SUPPORT FOR MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES, CLARE'S KIDS, SANE, COMASSIONATE CARE, ASSOCIATE BASIC NEEDS - Ministry Home Care LLC
COMMUNITY CARE FOR HOSPICE PATIENTS - Proffessional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc
BURN SURVIVOR SUPPORT, FIRE PREVENTION PROGRAMMING, AND FIRE SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | $2,450,112 | $61,590 |
| 2021 | 17 | $4,435,473 | $188,249 |
| 2022 | 14 | $5,786,554 | $437,816 |
| 2023 | 19 | $4,021,091 | $91,558 |
| 2024 | 12 | $4,104,469 | $168,440 |
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
91% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
12 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 23 grants totalling $266,584 to Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc. That is 32% of the 38 funders we can see giving to it. Those 12 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
4 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straz Family Foundation | Florida | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Keenan Tr Matthew Keenan End Fd | Wisconsin | $51,940 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gladys E Gores Charitable | Wisconsin | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pollybill Foundation Inc | Wisconsin | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund | Illinois | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baird Foundation Inc | Wisconsin | $6,225 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Api Group Foundation | Minnesota | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Telly Foundation Ltd | Wisconsin | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meeleus Charitable Trust | Minnesota | $3,419 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Schoen Family Charitable Trust | Tennessee | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 12.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $100,075 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 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: C/O Tax Department Po Box 45998, St Louis, MO, 63145.
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