The Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation is essentially an institutional health system funder that concentrates almost all of its philanthropy on supporting Mills-Peninsula Medical Center and affiliated Sutter Health entities. Its grants are directed toward program and service support within the hospital system rather than a broad set of external nonprofits. The foundation appears focused on sustaining clinical operations and internal health programs within the Sutter network.
Highly concentrated giving: very large, few grants overwhelmingly to one core recipient (repeat grants to Sutter Bay Hospitals/MPMC) with minor funding to affiliated health organizations.
The largest recent grant went to Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC for program services, including an $8,376,310 award in 2023 and a $4,293,412 award in 2025. That pattern captures how Mills-peninsula Hospital Foundation operates: it directs most of its giving into the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center and related Sutter Health entities, with grants used for hospital-based program and service support rather than a broad external portfolio. The foundation is a public charity with $77,136,263 in assets and $15,589,899 in annual grants given, but its recent grant list shows a tight institutional focus. Another large grant, $2,442,064 in 2024 to the same medical center entity, reinforces the recurring support for core system activities. Smaller awards in the recent record also go to Sutter Bay Medical Foundation and Sutter Health, both in Sacramento, showing a consistent pattern of funding within the Sutter network. The foundation funds organizations in California only, and every recent grant listed is to a California recipient.
Mills-peninsula Hospital Foundation’s giving centers on hospital operations and affiliated health-system support. In 2025, it gave $457,552 to Sutter Bay Medical Foundation for program services, pointing to support for system-level activity inside the Sutter network. A smaller 2024 grant of $20,561 to Sutter Health also went to program services, again within the same institutional structure. The foundation’s larger awards follow the same pattern: program services are the stated purpose across recent grants, with the recipient set limited to Mills-Peninsula and Sutter-affiliated entities. That makes the foundation’s portfolio distinct from open-ended community grantmaking; it functions as a health-system funder supporting clinical and operational work inside a defined provider network.
Recent grants show a high-dollar institutional pattern. The typical grant size sits at $1,231,312 at the 25th percentile, $2,442,064 at the median, and $5,409,187 at the 75th percentile, with awards ranging from small five-figure support to multi-million-dollar commitments. The same recipient appears across multiple years, which indicates recurring support rather than one-off gifts. Mills-peninsula Hospital Foundation is a public charity, and its recent grants are all program-services awards to health-system entities rather than individuals or PRIs. The grant record also suggests a highly centralized approach to giving, with all documented recipients located in California.
$4.8M
$77.1M
$11.5M
$8.1M
Most grants fall between $1.2M and $5.4M, with a median of $2.4M.
25th Percentile
$1.2M
Median
$2.4M
75th Percentile
$5.4M
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Notable grantees: Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC, Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, Sutter Health
All recent grants in the file go to California recipients, so the foundation’s giving is entirely in-state and locally concentrated. The main recipient city shown in the recent grants list is Sacramento, which appears on every listed award. Within that cluster are Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC, Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, and Sutter Health, all of which are based in Sacramento in the grant record. The recipient-country distribution is entirely US-based.
It funds program services for Mills-Peninsula Medical Center and affiliated Sutter Health entities. The recent grant list is dominated by awards to Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC, with additional grants to Sutter Bay Medical Foundation and Sutter Health, all described as program services.
No. The grant record shows 100% of grants to recipients in California, and the recent recipient-country distribution is entirely US-based. The listed recipients are all in Sacramento, CA.
The grant-size distribution is high-dollar: the 25th percentile is $1,231,312, the median is $2,442,064, and the 75th percentile is $5,409,187. Recent awards include both multi-million-dollar grants and smaller program-services grants.
The same recipient appears across multiple years, especially Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC, which received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to recurring support rather than isolated one-time awards.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC | SACRAMENTO, CA | $4,293,412 | 2025 | PROGRAM SERVICES |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $457,552 | 2025 | Program Services |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC | SACRAMENTO, CA | $2,442,064 | 2024 | PROGRAM SERVICES |
| Sutter Health | Sacramento, CA | $20,561 | 2024 | Program SErvices |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals DBA MPMC | SACRAMENTO, CA | $8,376,310 | 2023 | PROGRAM SERVICES |