Minnesota · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION
ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,666 to it, the largest being THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ($337,384). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $945k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation does
Mission
Abh | the foundation is a physician-led philanthropic organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of the community through strategic initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation (abhf) has a rich history of responding to the needs of the community. Initiating a mass immunization effort aimed at rubella was one of its initial projects in the 1970s; today, the foundation's priorities are to provide funding to organizations that offer healthcare services and resource connections to our underserved residents. We also excel in celebrating our physicians of excellence and medical student scholars with award recognitions. Impact: honoring choices minnesota is the stalwart public health initiative of the Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation, working in collaboration with organizations throughout minnesota and the nation to promote advance care planning. Www.honoringchoices.org. In addition, the foundation is honored to serve as the fiscal agent for the dr. Pete dehnel public health advocacy fellowship, where medical students are giving the opportunity to join tcms members by engaging their voices and skills in public health advocacy work. Since 2015, abhf had provided over 387,000 in grant dollars to our community.
$78,327 spentof which $17,000 as grants$9,206 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $78,327.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $1.6M (−23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Elisabeth Hurliman Md Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $158k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Advocates for Better Health · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION?
- ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,666 to it, the largest being THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ($337,384). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $944,666 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION?
- THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $337,384 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing