Illinois · Nonprofit
Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc
Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,761,400 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $530k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $512k
What Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc does
Mission
The BDHEA seeks to use our unique platform to advance work in ways that are likely to result in long-term, sustainable reductions in health disparities. To achieve this, we will: articulate the business case for addressing the health disparities that impact Black people and other communities of color; foster increased collaboration among top health systems to share best practices and synergies,ensure equitable access to care (with a focus, most immediately, on vaccine education and delivery), and address social determinants of health including housing, food insecurity, education and employment, through meaningful, yet practical programs while advocating for policies that can have a long-term, positive impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 2020, the BDHEA is a pioneering non-profit 501(c)(3) organizationdedicated to transforming health care by eliminating disparities that disproportionately affect Black communities. The BDHEAs commitment to health equity will ensure that ALL have the ability to achieve their full health potential.- Expanded the BDHEA Directors Toolkit by launching the releases of an assessment of Community Health Centers and public hospitals.This will expand the Playbook to more than 4.2k hospitals and CHCs and support its usage. - To advance the Board Diversity and Inclusion Project convened a task force of Board Directors and Senior leaders in health, to define and develop strategies and actions which will champion and support increased participation of Black board directors who represent the heart of their communities. - Launched the BDHEA's Clinical Steering Council (CSC). The CSC leverages the expertise of subject matter professionals to advance our health care disparities and Outcome Pillar, with a focus on reducing health disparities and improving the health of the Black community and everyone. Our initial focus area is Maternal Health. - Presented a National Summit Innovating for…
$643,761 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,761.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $379k to $1.3M (+243%).
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.
21% of Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Gilbert Bland
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $135k → $381k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc’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
Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 74% · 2022 42% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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.
Against its field
Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc's revenue fell 75% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc: 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 Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc?
- Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,761,400 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,761,400 in grants to Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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