Centracare Health System
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Centracare Health System at a glance
In short: Centracare Health System gave $148K across 7 grants in 2025 (avg $21K), mostly in Minnesota. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $148,100
- -46.7% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 7
- -12.5% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $21,157
- -39.1% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $25,000
- Total assets
- $1,572,199,156
- +33.8% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Minnesota (83% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
How to apply to Centracare Health System
Open Grants
1 open opportunity from Centracare Health System
Who Centracare Health System funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 7 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Active Central MN ($40K). Together the top 7 received $148K.
Grant Size Distribution
31 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 25 grants of 31 (81%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 7 itemized grants.
States
Cities
How Centracare Health System gives
- Giving fell 36% from 2022 to 2025. Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $44K (2019) to $325K (2023). In 2025 it made 7 grants totaling $148K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Active Central MN Waite Park, MN | Annual Sponsorship | $40,000 |
| First Boston, MA | Annual Sponsorship | $25,000 |
| Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity St Cloud, MN | Annual Donation | $25,000 |
| St Cloud Technical & Community College Foundation St Cloud, MN | LPN Program Support | $25,000 |
| Great River Childrens Museum St Cloud, MN | Creator Sponsorship | $12,500 |
| Willmar Stingers Baseball Association Willmar, MN | Annual Sponsorship | $10,600 |
| St Cloud State University Foundation St Cloud, MN | MLK DAY | $10,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,572,199,156 | $647,886,558 | $542,911,522 | $148,100 | 7 | $67,357,249 |
| 2024 | $1,174,669,944 | $577,819,960 | $532,902,865 | $277,967 | 8 | $23,966,572 |
| 2023 | $1,066,347,810 | $596,489,383 | $522,159,955 | $324,943 | 10 | $23,802,359 |
| 2022 | $913,072,774 | $622,933,545 | $472,250,991 | $230,000 | 3 | $9,603,783 |
| 2021 | $602,692,177 | $458,863,566 | $403,989,291 | $180,000 | 3 | $4,604,283 |
| 2020 | $537,648,015 | $450,485,121 | $427,245,346 | $249,125 | 6 | $2,823,191 |
| 2019 | $516,087,917 | $402,551,704 | $389,622,910 | $43,900 | 4 | $6,661,511 |
About Centracare Health System
Based on IRS filings
Centracare Health System is a public charity focused on Health, based in St Cloud, MN. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $1.6B in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 7 grants totaling $148K. Net investment income was $67.4M.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Centracare Health System is led by Kenneth D. Holmen MD, President & CEO on every filing since 2019; 47 of 48 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Kenneth D. Holmen MD
President & CEO
On filings since 2019
7 hrs/week
$1.5M (2019) → $1.9M (2025)
David Anfinson
Chair
Director → Vice Chair, 2021
Vice Chair → Chair, 2024
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
$1K (2019) → $32K (2025)
Bryan Rolph
Director
Director & Physician → Director, 2021
On filings since 2019
39 hrs/week
$432K (2021) → $573K (2025)
Jeff Gau
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
$1K (2019) → $9K (2025)
James Hebl
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
$1K (2022) → $6K (2025)
Richard A. Wehseler MD
Director
On filings since 2021
39 hrs/week
$404K (2021) → $383K (2025)
Tim Wensman
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
$1K (2022) → $10K (2025)
Michelle Johnson
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
$1K (2022) → $6K (2025)
Dan Abdul
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
$8K (2023) → $8K (2025)
Renee Frauendienst
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
$10K (2024) → $8K (2025)
Bobbie Bertram
Director
On filings since 2024
39 hrs/week
$217K (2024) → $305K (2025)
Carrie Henning-Smith
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
$4K (2024) → $8K (2025)
Jacob Lyons
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
$723K (2025)
Father Tom Knoblach
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Amy M. Porwoll
Chief Information System Officer & Senior Vice President
Chief Information System Offcr & Senior Vice President → Ciso & Senior Vice President, 2023
Ciso & Senior Vice President → Chief Information System Officer & Senior Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
8 hrs/week
$497K (2019) → $627K (2025)
Anthony V. Gardner
Former Key Employee
Cmco & Senior Vice President → Chief Marketing, Communications Officer & Senior Vice President, 2024
Chief Marketing, Communications Officer & Senior Vice President → Former Key Employee, 2025
On filings since 2019
8 hrs/week
$359K (2019) → $343K (2025)
Christopher W. Boelter
Vice President
On filings since 2019
20 hrs/week
$657K (2019) → $674K (2025)
Cindy Firkins Smith
Former Key Employee
Carris Health, President & CEO → Vice President, 2021
Vice President → Former Key Employee, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$852K (2021) → $865K (2025)
David A. Larson
Vice President
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$232K (2020) → $417K (2025)
George A. Morris
Former Key Employee
Vice President → Former Key Employee, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$512K (2019) → $500K (2025)
Joseph D. Hellie
Former Vice President
Vice President → Former Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$327K (2020) → $447K (2025)
Joseph H. Kalkman
Physician, Former CAO & Senior Vice President
CAO & Senior Vice President → Chief Adminstrative Officer & Senior Vice President, 2024
Chief Adminstrative Officer & Senior Vice President → Physician, Former CAO & Senior Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$394K (2019) → $1M (2025)
Joseph M. Blonski
Vice President
Vice President → Vice President Ambulance Care, 2021
Vice President Ambulance Care → Vice President, 2022
On filings since 2019
20 hrs/week
$456K (2019) → $608K (2025)
Joy M. Plamann RN
Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President
Vice President → COO & Senior Vice President, 2023
COO & Senior Vice President → Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
7 hrs/week
$318K (2019) → $980K (2025)
Leah M. Schammel
Physician
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$731K (2021) → $1.2M (2025)
Michael W. Schramm
Former Key Employee
Carris Health, President & Co-Ceo → Carris Health, President & CEO, 2020
Carris Health, President & CEO → Former Key Employee, 2023
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$439K (2019) → $471K (2025)
Nathaniel J. Slinkard MD
Physician
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$919K (2021) → $1M (2025)
Thomas G. Schrup MD
Chief Physician Officer & Executive Vice President
Chief Physician Officer & Executive Vice President → Cpo & Executive Vice President, 2023
Cpo & Executive Vice President → Chief Physician Officer & Executive Vice President, 2024
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$458K (2019) → $839K (2025)
Michael Blair
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President & Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President & Treasurer → CFO, Senior Vice President & Treasurer, 2023
CFO, Senior Vice President & Treasurer → Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President & Treasurer, 2024
On filings since 2020
7 hrs/week
$98K (2020) → $997K (2025)
Santo Cruz
Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President & Secretary
Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President & Secretary → Clo, Senior Vice President & Secretary, 2023
Clo, Senior Vice President & Secretary → Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President & Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2020
7 hrs/week
$263K (2020) → $875K (2025)
Debra G. Peterson
Former Key Employee
Fromer Key Employee → Vice President, 2023
Vice President → Former Key Employee, 2025
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$465K (2021) → $460K (2025)
John R. Hering
Former Key Employee
Monticello Director → Former Key Employee, 2022
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$405K (2021) → $501K (2025)
Lynn McFarling
Vice President
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$363K (2021) → $499K (2025)
Dexter Casta
Physician
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$902K (2023) → $1M (2025)
Maria Mallory
Vice President
On filings since 2023
14 hrs/week
$585K (2023) → $523K (2025)
Matthew Kunkel
Vice President
On filings since 2023
20 hrs/week
$360K (2023) → $431K (2025)
Philip Luitjens
Vice President
On filings since 2023
20 hrs/week
$345K (2023) → $412K (2025)
Zachary Bork
Vice President
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$272K (2023) → $285K (2025)
Andrea Smart
Vice President
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$325K (2024) → $359K (2025)
Bryan Bauck
Vice President
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$346K (2024) → $405K (2025)
Bryan Lydick
Vice President
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$403K (2024) → $533K (2025)
Jennifer Todd
Chief Compliance Officer
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$157K (2024) → $231K (2025)
Laurel Wessman
Physician
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$997K (2024) → $1.1M (2025)
Rachael Lesch
Vice President
On filings since 2024
20 hrs/week
$330K (2024) → $476K (2025)
Ryan Engdahl
Vice President
On filings since 2024
20 hrs/week
$261K (2024) → $360K (2025)
Holly Gulden
Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
$379K (2025)
Kimberly Egan
Chief Human Resources Officer & Senior Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
7 hrs/week
$288K (2025)
Sherri Liebl
Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$245K (2025)
Former officers (44)
- Former: Christian P. Schmidt MD (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Ulrika M. Wigert (2021–2024) — Vice President
- Former: Sasan Moshirzadeh (2023–2024) — Physician
- Former: Bradley J. Konkler (2019–2023) — Vice President
- Former: Diane R. Buschena-Brenna (2019–2023) — Vice President
- Former: Kathleen M. Parsons (2019–2023) — Vice President
- Former: Steve Laraway (2019–2023) — Board Chair
- Former: Tod W. Speer (2020–2023) — Physician
- Former: Craig Broman (2021–2023) — Former Officer
- Former: Bob Thueringer (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Joe Uphus (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Bobbie Bertram Aprn (2022) — Director
- Former: Brad Konkler (2022) — Vice President
- Former: Catherine Greenlee (2022) — Vice President
- Former: Eric Westberg (2022) — Physican
- Former: Jonathan Silva (2022) — Anesthesiologist
- Former: Pao Vang (2022) — Physician
- Former: Tom Schrup MD (2022) — Chief Physician Officer & Executive Vice President
- Former: Yun Chau Lee (2022) — Physician
- Former: Donald Jurgens MD (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Julie C. Schultz (2019–2021) — Physician
- Former: Kurt T. Otto (2019–2021) — Vice President
- Former: Mark S. Matthias (2019–2021) — Vice President
- Former: Sharon J. Ruggiero MD (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Teresa Bohnen (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Timothy P. Michals (2021) — Physician
- Former: Beth A. Honkomp (2019–2020) — Vice President
- Former: Christopher Coborn (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Denise Rosin (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Donald Kettler Jcl (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Gregory R. Klugherz (2019–2020) — Treasurer, CFO & Cch
- Former: Joseph Uphus (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Mary Dana Hinton (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Mike Benusa (2019–2020) — Director & Chair
- Former: Paul R. Harris Esq. (2019–2020) — Corporate Secretary
- Former: Richard Wehlser MD (2019–2020) — Director & Physician
- Former: Robert Stocker MD (2019–2020) — Director & Obgyn
- Former: Tim Hebl MD (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Timothy Wensman (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Tohow Siyad (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Thomas H. Lange MD (2020) — Physician
- Former: Jonathan W. Mellema MD (2019) — Physician
- Former: Kelly Macken-Marble (2019) — Vice President
- Former: Nelson L. Adamson MD (2019) — Physician
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $1.9M, to Kenneth Holmen (President/CEO). 47 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Centracare Health System
How much does Centracare Health System give each year?
Centracare Health System gave $148K across 7 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $278K across 8 grants.
What is Centracare Health System's typical grant size?
Centracare Health System's median grant in 2025 was $25,000, and its average grant was $21,157, across 7 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990.
Where does Centracare Health System give grants?
Centracare Health System gives mostly in Minnesota: 83% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The next largest state was Massachusetts (17%). The most frequent recipient cities were St Cloud, MN (4 grants).
Does Centracare Health System give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 7 grants with a stated purpose on Centracare Health System's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Annual Sponsorship" (3 grants).
Who are Centracare Health System's largest grantees?
Centracare Health System's largest 2025 grantees include Active Central MN ($40,000), First ($25,000) and Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity ($25,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 61% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Centracare Health System?
Centracare Health System reported $1.6B in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $647.9M.
What is Centracare Health System?
Centracare Health System is a public charity focused on Health, based in St Cloud, MN. It holds $1.6B in total assets as of 2025.
What is Centracare Health System's EIN?
Centracare Health System's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 41-1813221. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS September 20, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 13, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 16, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 11, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 15, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 15, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 12, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2019–2024
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