California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,624,315 to it, the largest being Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($12,270,231). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $131M
What California Health Foundation and Trust does
Mission
Support access, research, and education in the fields of healthcare delivery, financing, and patient care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
2022-2024 hospital grant programs:statewide effort to assist hospitals and hospital health systems in california to continue to provide access to care for uninsured and underinsured people, preserve physical access to care, and provide community services such as mental health access, wellness, and prevention programs. The program recovers $5.2 billion of the $8.8 billion shortfall annually in medi-cal payments.
$56,323,877 spentof which $52,792,786 as grants99% of program spendingSupport critical access hospitals (cahs) in implementing quality improvement activities.
$498,919 spentof which $173,308 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,822,796.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $115M to $156M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 23% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kerry L Heinrich Jd
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $6.9M.
1 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $140M from 27 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dignity Health). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST’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
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
98% 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 CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 70% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
70% of CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $600k 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
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 6 related entities
- California Hospital Association · exempt
- California Association of Hospitals Health Systems · exempt
- California Hospitals Committee on Issues · exempt
- California Hospital Association Political Action Committee · exempt
- Health Property Associates · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST: 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 CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST?
- CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,624,315 to it, the largest being Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($12,270,231). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $62,624,315 in grants to CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST?
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles is the largest funder on record, with $12,270,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 24 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