The Christ Hospital Foundation concentrates its support on strengthening hospital-based care and workforce development in Greater Cincinnati, primarily by funding its own hospital services and a dedicated nursing and health sciences college. Most funding is directed toward clinical operations, patient care capacity, and nursing education/assistance, indicating a mission-driven focus on sustaining and developing local healthcare infrastructure and staff.
Highly concentrated: few, large grants focused on a small set of recurring local grantees (multi-grant support to the hospital and its affiliated nursing college), emphasizing institutional stability and workforce pipeline rather than broad community grantmaking.
The Christ Hospital Foundation’s largest recent grants go to The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences, with awards of $1,779,631 in 2023 and $1,772,069 in 2025. That pattern points to a foundation that is closely tied to the staffing and training needs of its own healthcare system rather than a broad external grantmaker. Its recent giving also reaches The Christ Hospital itself, supporting hospital assistance and employee hardship, which shows a direct role in sustaining day-to-day care delivery and staff stability in Cincinnati. Across the recent grants on file, the foundation’s support stays local and repeatedly centers on two institutions: the hospital and its nursing college. The mix of nursing assistance, hospital operating support, and employee hardship grants suggests a model built around keeping clinical services functioning and developing the healthcare workforce that serves them. For a nonprofit researcher, the distinguishing feature is not breadth but institutional concentration: the foundation funds the infrastructure, education, and personnel that underpin a single regional health system.
In nursing assistance, The Christ Hospital Foundation directed $1,341,235 in 2024 to The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences, reinforcing its role in nurse education and student support. The same cause area appears in the larger 2025 grant of $1,772,069 to the college, showing continued investment in training the next generation of healthcare staff. On the hospital side, the foundation gave $340,914 in 2023 to The Christ Hospital for hospital assistance, alongside later support for hospital operations and patient-care capacity. Employee hardship is another clear theme: grants of $310,307 in 2024 and $110,752 in 2025 went to The Christ Hospital for employee hardship, indicating direct support for staff-facing needs within the health system. These patterns align with the foundation’s beneficiary types: nursing staff, hospital employees, and healthcare facilities.
The Christ Hospital Foundation’s recent grants cluster in a high-dollar band, with a p25 of $232,991, a median of $310,307, and a p75 of $1,341,235. That spread reflects a mix of very large institutional support and smaller staff-focused awards within the same system. The recent record shows repeated funding to the same recipients across multiple years, especially the nursing college and The Christ Hospital, which points to ongoing support rather than one-time grants. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. Its activity appears to be through institutional grantmaking tied to its own healthcare network.
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$120M
$33.3M
$7M
Most grants fall between $233K and $1.3M, with a median of $310K.
25th Percentile
$233K
Median
$310K
75th Percentile
$1.3M
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Notable grantees: The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences, The Christ Hospital, Regional Cincinnati healthcare institutions (representative of the foundation's local hospital and nursing education focus)
All recent grants on file go to recipients in Ohio, and the recipient-country distribution is entirely U.S.-based. The most visible location is Cincinnati, where both The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences and The Christ Hospital received grants. Grant records also show Cincinnati as the city of every named recipient in the recent list, underscoring a highly local pattern of giving. With 100% of grants going to recipients in the HQ state, the foundation’s support is fully concentrated in Ohio.
The foundation concentrates on nursing assistance, hospital operating and patient-care support, employee hardship grants, healthcare workforce retention, and emergency relief for hospital staff. The recent grants show repeated support for The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences and The Christ Hospital, which fits that hospital-system focus.
The recent grants are concentrated in two institutions: The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences and The Christ Hospital. Both are in Cincinnati, and the college receives the largest awards while the hospital receives support for operations, patient care, and employee hardship.
Recent grants are relatively large. The p25 is $232,991, the median is $310,307, and the p75 is $1,341,235. That distribution shows a mix of mid-sized staff and hospital-support awards alongside much larger grants to the nursing college.
No. Every recent grant listed goes to recipients in Ohio, and the geographic scope of giving is local. The recipient-country distribution is also entirely U.S.-based, with 9 grants in the United States.
No. The foundation does not fund individuals. Its recent grantmaking is directed to institutions within its healthcare network, especially The Christ Hospital and The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES | Cincinnati, OH | $1,636,970 | 2026 | NURSING ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | Cincinnati, OH | $467,763 | 2026 | HOSPITAL ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | Cincinnati, OH | $122,306 | 2026 | EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP |
| THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES | CINCINNATI, OH | $1,772,069 | 2025 | NURSING ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | Cincinnati, OH | $216,593 | 2025 | HOSPITAL ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | CINCINNATI, OH | $110,752 | 2025 | EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP |
| THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES | CINCINNATI, OH | $1,341,235 | 2024 | NURSING ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | CINCINNATI, OH | $310,307 | 2024 | EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | CINCINNATI, OH | $232,991 | 2024 | HOSPITAL ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES | CINCINNATI, OH | $1,779,631 | 2023 | NURSING ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | CINCINNATI, OH | $340,914 | 2023 | HOSPITAL ASSISTANCE |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | CINCINNATI, OH | $240,937 | 2023 | EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP |
THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
$1,636,970NURSING ASSISTANCE
THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
$1,772,069NURSING ASSISTANCE
EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP
THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
$1,341,235NURSING ASSISTANCE
THE CHRIST COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
$1,779,631NURSING ASSISTANCE