Grants for health organizations

Name: Top 10 Grants for health organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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14,393 health care organizations received at least $207.1 billion in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 23,183 grants made from 10,145 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,800. Of these 10,145 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.

$207,149,467,749

Total grant dollars given to health organizations

23,183

Number of grants made annually to health organizations

10,145

Number of grantmakers funding health organizations

$1,800

Median grant size to health organizations

Foundations that support health care organizations

Out of all grants made to health organizations, 77% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 49% of the dollar-value of grants to health orgs. Foundations funding health orgs also made grants to community clinics, public health programs, multiservice human service organizations, trade / professional associations, and general hospitals.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	7,836
Medium	1,041
Large	1,260

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	7,882
Corporate	310
Other	1,815

Grants made

Grants made to health orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	6,376
2-3	2,866
4-10	745
11+	158

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
Kaiser Permanente	CA	State	98.4%	28	$95,796,454
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)	CA	State	97.0%	25	$133,289,661
Ascension Health	MO	National	95.6%	68	$15,334,540
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	NY	Metro	99.9%	15	$32,835,604
MHM Support Services	MO	State	84.2%	27	$28,532,084
Sutter Health	CA	State	99.0%	25	$27,679,633
Saint Joseph Health (SJH)	WA	Metro	84.5%	14	$139,211,148
Norton Healthcare	KY	Metro	99.6%	6	$41,874,974
Boston Children's Hospital	MA	Metro	99.6%	2	$1,224,872,241
Ascension Southeast Michigan St John Providence Health Oncology Research Nsortium	MO	Metro	95.3%	18	$39,369,652

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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 60% of all health orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	19,701
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	3,482

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,250
$1M-$5M	$1,100
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	2,603
Tennessee	2,190
California	2,016
Florida	1,269
Other	15,105

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	2,603
Memphis	1,805
Los Angeles	759
Chicago	688
Other	15,771

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
St Jude Children's Research Hospital	$974,742,522	Support for Operational and Capital Budget Needs	American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities
Sutter Health	$963,452,867	FMV	Sutter Bay Hospitals (CPMC)
Providence Health and Services	$893,823,416	Cost	Swedish Medical Center

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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.