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St Mary's Hospital & Medical

Grand Junction, CO · EIN 84-0425720. Reported 63 grants totalling $79.1M to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

30organizations funded
$35,000median reported grant
$79.1Mgranted, 2021-2024
73%of grantees funded again the next year
86%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 St Mary's Hospital & Medical, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 86% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
  3. How much its list changes. 73% 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 $35,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,250 and $250,000; the smallest was $5,750 and the largest $18.3M. 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.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
17 grants

3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $465,991 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
Intermountain Front Range IncSalt Lake Cty, UT$68.4M442024
St Marys Hospital FoundationGrand Jct, CO$4,159,164442024
Colorado Mesa University FoundationGrand Jct, CO$3,070,600332024
Marillac Clinic IncGrand Jct, CO$866,200442024
Mind Springs Foundation IncGrand Junction, CO$500,000222024
Mind Springs HealthGrand Junction, CO$500,000222022
Benevolent Healthcare FoundationCentennial, CO$440,765222024
Quality Health NetworkGrand Jct, CO$305,000222022
Hilltop Health Services CorporationGrand Junction, CO$162,550332024
Grand Junction Economic Partnership IncGrand Jct, CO$127,520442024
Mesa CountyGrand Junction, CO$80,000112024
Homewardbound of the Grand ValleyGrand Jct, CO$60,000112024
Grand Junction Area Chamber of CommerceGrand Jct, CO$52,650442024
Grand Junction Air Show IncGrand Jct, CO$52,000112023
Holy Family Catholic SchoolGrand Junction, CO$45,000332024
HopewestGrand Jct, CO$41,350442024
Community Food BankGrand Jct, CO$38,000112024
District 51 FoundationGrand Jct, CO$38,000222023
Mesa County Public Library Foundation IncGrand Jct, CO$35,000112021
Greater Grand Junction Sports CommissionGrand Jct, CO$30,500222024
Center for Enriched Communication IncGrand Jct, CO$30,000332024
Careflight of the Rockies LLCBroomfield, CO$25,226112023
City of Grand JunctionGrand Junction, CO$15,000222024
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach IncGrand Jct, CO$12,500112022
Special Olympics ColoradoAurora, CO$10,500112024
Citizens for D51 Schools Issue CommitteeGrand Junction, CO$10,000112024
Colorado Personalized Education Program for PhysiciansDenver, CO$10,000112022
Delta Health FoundationDelta, CO$10,000112022
Rmo Golf IncGrand Jct, CO$10,000112023
Family Health West FoundationFruita, CO$7,000112024

17 of 30 (57%) 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.

It also reported 19 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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 20 of 30 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.

Health Care
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Recreation & Sports
3 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202111$19.7M$225,000
202214$19.1M$13,875
202318$20.2M$21,363
202420$20.2M$36,510

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

86% of its giving went to organizations in Utah. 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.

Utah
$68.4M
Colorado
$10.7M

Down to the city

Salt Lake Cty, UT
$68.4M
Grand Jct, CO
$8.9M
Grand Junction, CO
$1.3M
Centennial, CO
$441K
Broomfield, CO
$25K
Aurora, CO
$10K

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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.

Western Colorado Community17 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsBacon Family Foundation10 shared recipientsUnited Way of Mesa County Inc9 shared recipientsThe Colorado Health Foundation8 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 $35,000 -- 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 Utah.
  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 St Mary's Hospital & Medical'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 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 2635 N 7TH Street, Grand Junction, CO, 81501.

EIN 84-0425720 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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