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CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY

CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$669k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$564k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Center for Health and Democracy does

Mission

Organized to promote social welfare including but not limited to securing generally available healthcare in the united states through a variety of educational and advocacy activities, such as educating the public concerning the views and actions of public officials regarding generally available healthcare, and engaging in legislative activities to approve and enact medicare for all legislation in some form or manner.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Public and media relations to educate the public concerning the views and actions of public officials regarding generally available healthcare.

    $26,859 spent
    39% of program spending
  2. Issues research, program development and execution aims to improve and promote path-changing new studies, analyses and exposes aligning with our mission to promote social welfare.

    $27,610 spent
    40% of program spending
  3. Grassroots advocacy and organizing to educate the public about issues surrounding the current healthcare system to promote social welfare, particularly when working to secure universally accessible healthcare. These efforts are driven by community involvement, raising awareness, building political power, and advocating for policy changes that ensure quality healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

    $13,929 spent
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,398.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($76k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2023 Revenue 91 ($69k) Expenses 128 ($89k) Net assets -86 ($-9344)2024 Revenue 885 ($669k) Expenses 138 ($96k) Net assets 5181 ($564k)
202220232024
Revenue (885)Expenses (138)Net assets (5181)

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 $5k to $564k (+10996%).

$11k
$5k
$564k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’22
−$20k
’23
$574k
’24
71
months of
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

Diane Archer

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed188
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY’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

CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

MI
PA
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Business Leaders for Health Care · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: 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 CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY?
CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,000 in grants to CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY?
LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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