St Joseph Health Northern California
Renton, WA · EIN 81-4791043. Reported 93 grants totalling $31.9M to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 St Joseph Health Northern California, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 40% 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. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $75,000. Half of what it reported fell between $23,432 and $250,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $7,985,399. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Health System Foundation | Irvine, CA | $12.9M | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Queen of the Valley Hospital Foundation | Napa, CA | $2,538,924 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Burbank Housing S R Corporation | Santa Rosa, CA | $2,200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA | $1,713,132 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Burbank Housing Development Corporation | Santa Rosa, CA | $1,300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buckelew Programs | Novato, CA | $1,155,900 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community & Family Service Agency | Guerneville, CA | $1,045,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jamboree Housing Corporation | Irvine, CA | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ceres Community Project | Santa Rosa, CA | $825,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| On the Margins Inc | Petaluma, CA | $770,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Santa Rosa Community Health Centers | Santa Rosa, CA | $460,673 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition | San Francisco, CA | $430,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Living Room Center Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph Home Care Network | Santa Rosa, CA | $380,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Redwood Memorial Foundation | Eureka, CA | $378,182 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mentis | Napa, CA | $372,032 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $313,293 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Committee on the Shelterless | Petaluma, CA | $284,486 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cope Family Center | Napa, CA | $266,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alliance Medical Center | Healdsburg, CA | $254,151 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Agewell Pace | Rohnert Park, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Betty Kwan Chinn Homeless Foundation | Eureka, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ole Health | Napa, CA | $179,530 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center Point Inc | San Rafael, CA | $159,032 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Humanidad Therapy & Education Services | Santa Rosa, CA | $153,540 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| NAMI Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $130,266 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mendonoma Health Alliance | Gualala, CA | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| On the Move | Napa, CA | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Coppertower Family Medical Center Inc | Cloverdale, CA | $99,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food for Thought | Forestville, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Botanical Bus | Rohnert Park, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Up Valley Family Centers of Napa County | Saint Helena, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Health Initiative Napa County Inc | Napa, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Progress Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Via Heart Project | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center | Napa, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Support Network | Santa Rosa, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Napa Valley Community Organizations Active in Disaster | Napa, CA | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mollys Angels | Napa, CA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Athletic Rehab Clinic | Sebastopol, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College All Faculty Association | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Share the Care Napa Valley | Napa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of the Napa Valley | Napa, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Resources for Children | Napa, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girls on the Run Napa & Solano Inc | Napa, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Downtown Napa Farmers Market Corporation | Napa, CA | $15,204 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gunilda Rianda Senior Center Association | Saint Helena, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Napa Valley Child Advocacy Network Incorporated | Napa, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce | Santa Rosa, CA | $13,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abode Services | Fremont, CA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Bay Leadership Council | Petaluma, CA | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alternatives for Better Living | Napa, CA | $9,280 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Rosa Fire Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
28 of 57 (49%) 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.
- St Joseph Health System Foundation
COMMUNITY BENEFIT RESTRICTED GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $4,209,281 | $129,297 |
| 2022 | 19 | $5,597,666 | $100,437 |
| 2023 | 35 | $13.1M | $70,000 |
| 2024 | 35 | $8,908,313 | $65,000 |
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
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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.
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 $75,000 -- 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 California.
- 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 St Joseph Health Northern California'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 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 1801 Lind Ave Sw Attn Tax Dept, Renton, WA, 98057.
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