Grants for health organizations

13,378 health care organizations received at least $189.5 billion in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 22,183 grants made from 9,690 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 9,690 foundations, 62% made just a single grant to health orgs, and 8% made grants to four or more health orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$189,512,572,886
Total grant dollars given to health organizations
22,183
Number of grants made annually to health organizations
9,690
Number of grantmakers funding health organizations
$1,500
Median grant size to health organizations

Foundations that support health care organizations

Out of all grants made to health organizations, 78% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 54% of the dollar-value of grants to health orgs. Foundations funding health orgs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, community clinics, religious organizations, and scholarship organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size Number of grantmakers
Small
 
7,625
Medium
 
954
Large
 
1,106
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type Number of grantmakers
Community
 
138
Private
 
7,772
Corporate
 
307
Other
 
1,473

Grants made

Grants made to health orgs Number of grantmakers
1
 
6,085
2-3
 
2,745
4-10
 
711
11+
 
149

Top 10 foundations supporting health care organizations

Grantmaker State Geographic focus Percent of grant dollars to health orgs Number of grants made to health orgs Median grant size
Baird Foundation WI National 3.5% 289 $100
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) TN Metro 0.6% 278 $250
Abbvie Foundation IL National 0.5% 269 $200
Chubb Charitable Foundation PA National 1.2% 263 $100
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines IA State 0.6% 220 $1,000
Westrock Foundation GA National 0.5% 217 $30
JP Morgan Chase Foundation NY National 0.1% 182 $500
Seattle Foundation WA State 0.3% 160 $1,473
The Rhode Island Foundation RI Metro 0.6% 147 $1,000

Health care organizations grantees

Health organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 59% of all health orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant Number of grants
<$10k
 
19,322
$10k-$25k
 
0
$25k-$100k
 
0
$100k+
 
2,861

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue Median grant size
<$100k
 
$1,000
$100k-$500k
 
$1,000
$500k-$1M
 
$1,200
$1M-$5M
 
$1,000
>$5M
 
$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee Number of grants
New York
 
2,522
Tennessee
 
2,157
California
 
1,920
Florida
 
1,210
Other
 
14,374

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee Number of grants
New York City
 
2,519
Memphis
 
1,779
Los Angeles
 
731
Chicago
 
658
Other
 
15,036

Top 25 grants made to health organizations

Grantee Grant size Purpose Grantmaker
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) $22,889,728,401 Per Agreement Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) $21,969,204,270 Per Agreement Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) $5,138,254,690 Per Agreement Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente $4,595,693,843 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Kaiser Permanente $3,200,944,748 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Kaiser Permanente $3,079,685,558 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Kaiser Permanente $2,561,020,434 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Boston Children's Hospital $2,331,845,019 FMV Boston Children's Hospital
Mount Sinai Hospital $1,957,622,000 Cost Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai Hospital $1,957,622,000 Cost Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kaiser Permanente $1,941,954,817 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Norton Healthcare $1,885,538,707 FMV Norton Healthcare
Presence Health Presence Healthcare Presence Health Care $1,789,855,695 Actual Amount Paid/transferred Ascension Health
Kaiser Permanente $1,696,811,228 Per Agreement Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
SelectHealth $1,541,868,247 Contract Ihc Health Services
Providence Health and Services $1,396,757,271 Accrual Providence Health and Services Oregon
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) $1,319,268,241 Per Agreement Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) $1,311,652,497 Per Agreement Kaiser Permanente
MDWISE Excel $1,194,691,407 Cash MDwise
MDWISE Excel $1,194,691,407 Cash MDwise
Ascension Southeast Michigan St John Providence Health Oncology Research Nsortium $1,158,183,060 Actual Amount Paid/transferred Ascension Health
Ascension Technologies $1,027,778,725 Actual Amount Paid/transferred Ascension Health
Sutter Health $963,452,867 FMV Sutter Bay Hospitals (CPMC)
Providence Health and Services $893,823,416 Cost Swedish Medical Center
Providence Health and Services $893,823,416 Accrual Swedish Medical Center
Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Health organizations" category for this page is determined by the "E00: Health Care: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.