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Saint John's Health Center Foundation

Santa Monica, CA · EIN 95-6100079. Reported 118 grants totalling $128.7M to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$57,500median reported grant
$128.7Mgranted, 2021-2024
88%of grantees funded again the next year
49%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Saint John's Health Center Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 49% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 88% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $57,500. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $120,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $25.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
29 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
41 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
23 grants
$250,000 Or More
15 grants

1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $475,717 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Providence Saint Johns Health CenterSeattle, WA$62.4M1742024
Saint John S Cancer InstituteSeattle, WA$30.3M842024
Pacific Neuroscience Institute FoundationSanta Monica, CA$30.1M442024
Providence Saint Johns Medical FoundationRenton, WA$1,623,569542024
The People ConcernLos Angeles, CA$450,000442024
West Side Food Bank a Non-Profit CorporationSanta Monica, CA$325,000442024
Catholic Charities of Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$250,000442024
Wise & Healthy AgingSanta Monica, CA$250,000442024
Santa Monica Education FoundationSanta Monica, CA$239,000442024
Safe Place for Youth IncVenice, CA$209,000442024
United States Veterans InitiativeLos Angeles, CA$175,000332024
The UCLA FoundationLos Angeles, CA$165,000222022
Vision to LearnLos Angeles, CA$162,000442024
Regents of the University of CaliforniaOakland, CA$150,215222024
Clare MatrixSanta Monica, CA$150,000222024
The Salvation ArmyHonolulu, HI$150,000222024
Claris HealthLos Angeles, CA$125,000442024
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica IncSanta Monica, CA$120,000442024
Meals on Wheels WestSanta Monica, CA$117,500332024
Opica Adult Day Program & Counseling CenterLos Angeles, CA$115,500442024
Cancer Support Community Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$105,000332024
Community PartnersLos Angeles, CA$105,000222022
Safe Parking LaLos Angeles, CA$89,088222024
Saint Monica High SchoolSanta Monica, CA$85,000332023
Growing Hope GardensTopanga, CA$75,000332024
Pp Task Force on HomelessnessPacific Palisades, CA$75,000112021
Vista Del Mar Child and Family ServicesLos Angeles, CA$75,000112024
Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$75,000332024
Bandini FoundationAgoura Hills, CA$62,000222022
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric ServiceCulver City, CA$55,000112024
Sojourn Services for Battered Women and Their Children Tr 02-00771Chicago, IL$50,000112022
Step Up on Second Street IncSanta Monica, CA$50,000112023
Santa Monica Family YMCA Endowment FundSanta Monica, CA$46,000222022
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles IncLos Angeles, CA$35,000222022
Santa Monica Young Mens Christian AssociationSanta Monica, CA$22,500112023
Mount OliveSanta Monica, CA$15,500112024
St James InnLos Angeles, CA$10,000112022

29 of 37 (78%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 37 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.

Human Services
14 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Science & Technology
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202126$29.1M$61,000
202232$32.4M$50,000
202329$23.9M$75,000
202431$43.3M$75,000

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

73% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. 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.

Washington
$94.4M
California
$34.1M
Hawaii
$150K
Illinois
$50K

Down to the city

Seattle, WA
$92.8M
Santa Monica, CA
$31.5M
Los Angeles, CA
$1.9M
Renton, WA
$1.6M
Venice, CA
$209K
Oakland, CA
$150K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

California Community Foundation23 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc17 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program14 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $57,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
  4. 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 Saint John's Health Center Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 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: 2121 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA, 90404.

EIN 95-6100079 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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