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Essential Hospitals Institute

ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE leads research, education, dissemination, and leadership development for america's essential hospitals.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.8MEducation$125kArts & Culture$50kHousing & Shelter$15kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE PLUS BERGEN LLC$50,000
THE METRO HEALTH SYSTEM$50,000
TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL$40,000
UMASS MEMORIAL$40,000
UVA SCHOOL$40,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$40,000
TEMPLE HEALTH$25,000
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
PARKLAND HEALTH & HOSPITAL SYSTEM$25,000
DOCS FOR HEALTH$20,000
AMOS HOUSE$15,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$10,000
ORLANDO HEALTH INC$10,000
BOSTON EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UMASS MEMORIAL: $40k → 11%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $155k → 16%TEMPLE HEALTH: $45k → 22%ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $45k → 10%ZUCKERBERG SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $45k → 11%SUNY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN: $35k → 20%TARRANT COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $35k → 11%PARKLAND HEALTH & HOSPITAL SYSTEM: $25k → 14%HARRIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $115k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $75k → 17%MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER: $35k → 14%ORLANDO HEALTH INC: $25k → 13%MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $35k → 13%WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND: $45k → 14%GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM: $80k → 13%THE METRO HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%UW MEDICAL CENTER: $35k → 9%CARE PLUS BERGEN LLC: $50k → 7%ST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL: $10k → 12%UVA SCHOOL: $40k → 8%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%UMASS MEMORIAL: $10k → 11%BOSTON EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%TEMPLE HEALTH: $25k → 22%ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%ZUCKERBERG SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 10%PARKLAND HEALTH & HOSPITAL SYSTEM: $10k → 14%NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: $20k → 14%ORLANDO HEALTH INC: $10k → 13%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $40k → 14%GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM: $65k → 13%UVA SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%BOSTON EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: $8k → 14%ORLANDO HEALTH INC: $10k → 13%DOCS FOR HEALTH: $20k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $10k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%AMOS HOUSE: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 15 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$1.0M
$840k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GM
    GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $145k · revenue +32%
  • ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    Temple University Hospital Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +25%
  • NB
    NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $95k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
3
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
4
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
5
Midstate Medical Center

The mission of Midstate Medical Center is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
6
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
7
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
8
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
9
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
12
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Temple University Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $154,563 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONGRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $145,000 · HealthGRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONSt Luke's Health System Ltd: $75,000 · HealthSt Luke's Health System LtdTemple University Hospital Inc: $70,000 · HealthTemple University Hospital IncCHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospital: $50,000 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthCARE PLUS BERGEN INC: $50,000 · HealthOrlando Health Inc: $45,000 · HealthWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $45,000 · HealthBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $27,100 · HealthHarris Health System: $200,000 · OtherHarris Health SystemCITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $129,999 · OtherCITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCONORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $95,000 · OtherNORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICTUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCESRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $50,000 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $45,000 · OtherST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $40,000 · OtherSOUTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $35,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $35,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington: $35,000 · OtherTARRANT COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $35,000 · Other+4 more: $65,000 · Other+4 moreNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40,000 · Science & TechTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education
Health$1,006,663Other$964,999Science & Tech$40,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $154,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt Luke's Health System Ltd: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University Hospital Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARE PLUS BERGEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Health Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: $27,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…The Children's Hospit…Public Health Institu…Reach Out and Read IncDirect ReliefCystic Fibrosis Found…American Heart Associ…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
American Cancer Society IncGA22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Public Health Institute · Reach Out and Read Inc · Direct Relief · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Essential Hospitals Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Essential Hospitals Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Care Plus Bergen Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Orlando Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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