SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis

What SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis does

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that solicits, holds, and distributes philanthropic contributions in support of SSM Health's affiliated hospitals and medical centers in the St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson County, and Metro East Illinois regions. The foundation is one of 10 independent SSM Health foundations operating across a four-state footprint (Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wisconsin) under the SSM Health system umbrella. Its core function is capital intermediation: aggregating donations from individuals, grateful patients, employees, corporate sponsors, and institutional grant-makers and reallocating those funds to hospital capital projects, medical equipment, patient-assistance programs, caregiver education, and community health initiatives.

The foundation's "product" surface consists of programmatic funding areas (Hospice & Home Health, Community Health Impact Fund, Cancer Care, Women's Health, Behavioral Health), recurring fundraising events (Bright Night Gala, SSM Health Foundation Golf Open, Saints Ball), and planned-giving vehicles (wills, trusts, charitable gift annuities, named endowments with $25,000 minimum gifts). No proprietary technology platform is offered; donor interaction occurs through the givetossmhealth.org web portal, direct mail, and in-person events. Revenue is generated entirely through charitable giving and grants rather than commercial sales.

Name

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis

Legal name

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis

Website

https://givetossmhealth.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1872

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that raises and distributes philanthropic funds to support SSM Health hospitals and community health programs in the St. Louis metropolitan and Metro East Illinois regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Philanthropy

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Health & Prevention Program Funding (HLAJALAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL), Health Systems Strengthening & Primary Care Development (HLAJAKAJ)

Keywords

• Charitable giving programs
• Healthcare philanthropy
• Donor fundraising
• Hospital fundraising
• Community health funding

Headquarters

HQ city

St Louis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: The foundation receives charitable gifts from individual donors including grateful patients and community benefactors to support SSM Health hospitals and programs.
2. Planned Giving/Bequests: Donors can make legacy gifts through wills, trusts, or beneficiary designations to support hospitals and programs for many years to come.
3. Endowments: Memorial or tribute gifts established as named endowments with minimum gift amounts to fund specific interests consistent with SSM Health's mission and goals. Principal is invested and only earnings are used.
4. Event Fundraising: Annual events including the Bright Night Gala and SSM Health Foundation Golf Open generate charitable contributions from sponsors and attendees.
5. Employee Giving: SSM Health employees contribute through payroll deduction campaigns supporting areas of greatest need and specific programs.
6. Corporate/Foundation Grants: The foundation receives major grants from other foundations such as the Mabee Foundation ($1.28 million Challenge Grant) and Avedis Foundation ($3 million gift).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable foundation that solicits, receives, and distributes donations to support SSM Health hospitals and programs in the St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson County, and Metro East regions. It channels individual donations, planned gifts, endowments, corporate/foundation grants, and proceeds from fundraising events toward capital projects, medical equipment, patient assistance, caregiver training, and community health initiatives.

Product overview

SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis is a charitable foundation operating as a single, unified fundraising organization. The Foundation does not offer a software product but rather manages a portfolio of charitable giving programs, fundraising events, and grant distributions to support SSM Health hospitals in the St. Louis region. Key programs include Hospice & Home Health Funding, Community Health Impact Fund, Cancer Care Funding, Women's Health Funding, and Behavioral Health Funding, supplemented by events such as the annual Golf Open and Bright Night Gala.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SSM Health Foundation: The overarching brand for SSM Health's network of 10 charitable foundations supporting affiliated hospitals and medical centers.

Products and services

• SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis Donation Platform A charitable giving platform enabling donors to make online donations to support SSM Health hospitals in the St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson County, and Metro East regions.
• Hospice & Home Health Funding Charitable funding program supporting hospice and home health services including Comfort Touch Massage Therapy, Peaceful Harmony Music Therapy, bereavement support, and caregiver training.
• Community Health Impact Fund A fund addressing social determinants of health including food assistance, medical respite services, transportation support, housing, and nutrition programs.
• Cancer Care Funding Funding for patient-centered cancer treatment programs, medical equipment and technology, caregiver training, preventive care, and patient family support.
• Women's Health Funding Funding supporting women's health programs including maternal care, breast cancer screening, perinatal support, and obstetric hemorrhage training.
• SSM Health Foundation Golf Open Annual golf tournament fundraiser held at Norwood Hills Country Club supporting Foundation initiatives.
• SSM Health Foundation Bright Night Gala Annual black-tie gala event at The Ritz-Carlton St. Louis raising funds for patient-centered programs and hospital initiatives. The 2025 event raised more than $633,000.
• Behavioral Health Funding Funding for behavioral health programs including the Mabee Foundation Grant supporting SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital Urgent Care and Clinic.

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• City of BaraboominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 February 2025SSM Health St. Clare Foundation provided a $50,000 donation to the City of Baraboo to maintain the shared ride taxi service that provides critical transportation access to medical appointments, groceries, and daily school transportation.
• St. Louis Area FoodbankminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSSM Health partners with St. Louis Area Foodbank for the Bread Basket Program to address food insecurity among patients, providing food assistance before hospital discharge.
• Miller ArchitectsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMiller Architects provided a challenge gift to match all donations up to $100,000 for the Love Family West Entrance project at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• BJC HealthCare Foundation: The charitable foundation for BJC HealthCare, the other dominant nonprofit hospital system in the St. Louis market. Directly comparable in mission, donor base (local grateful patients and benefactors), and event-driven fundraising approach in the same geography.
• SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation: Sibling foundation within the same SSM Health network, dedicated to the Cardinal Glennon children's hospital in St. Louis. Operates with identical revenue model, governance structure, and donor development approach, serving as a natural intra-network comparable.
• SSM Health St. Anthony Foundation: Sibling SSM Health foundation serving Oklahoma City and Shawnee. Most data-rich comparable within the network, with $10.69M raised in 2025 from 2,476 donors across 18,515 donations — directly indicating fundraising patterns and donor activity at a peer SSM Health foundation.
• Mercy Health Foundation: Philanthropic arm of Mercy, a large Catholic health system with major St. Louis presence. Directly comparable multi-state hospital foundation structure, faith-based mission orientation, and emphasis on grateful-patient giving.

Broad incumbents

• Advocate Health Foundation: Major multi-state nonprofit health system's philanthropic arm supporting capital projects, behavioral health, and community programs. Comparable scale and program portfolio to SSM Health Foundation – St. Louis.
• Ascension Health Foundation: National Catholic health system's philanthropic arm. Comparable as a multi-state, mission-driven hospital foundation network supporting capital projects, community health, and grateful-patient programs across overlapping geographies.
• Trinity Health Foundation: Catholic health system's philanthropic foundation operating across multiple states. Comparable multi-state footprint, faith-based heritage, and emphasis on community health and health equity funding priorities.
• CommonSpirit Health Foundation: One of the largest U.S. nonprofit health system foundations, formed from the merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. Comparable as a diversified, multi-state health philanthropy platform serving hospitals and community health programs.
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation: Large academic medical center foundation with a sophisticated grateful-patient and planned-giving program. Comparable in focus on capital campaigns, medical research funding, and high-net-worth donor cultivation, though at meaningfully larger scale.

Regional players

• St. Louis Community Foundation: Regional grantmaking community foundation serving the same St. Louis metro donor pool. Comparable as a St. Louis-area grantmaking entity competing for similar individual, corporate, and foundation philanthropic dollars, though not hospital-affiliated.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SSMHealthStLouis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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