Michigan · Nonprofit
CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION
CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($184,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $563k
What Chime Education Foundation does
Mission
Support the education of healthcare information technology professionals by receiving, raising, and administering funds for the purpose of granting scholarships to such persons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The chime opiod task force funding was exhausted.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Since 2007, the Chime Education Foundation has directly supported the professional development of emerging digital health leaders. The healthcare it environment continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and the need for qualified, committed professionals is increasingly critical. We're helping current and future healthcare it leaders develop the essential skill sets to lead their organizations effectively and have a greater impact on the improved delivery of healthcare through career-defining scholarship opportunities. Our mission remains the same each year, increase the number of scholarship opportunities available to provide as many deserving applicants as possible with the opportunity to advance as the next generation of healthcare leaders driving success and innovation.
$151,780 spentof which $51,193 as grants70% of program spendingThe chime opioid task force (otf) was launched in early 2018 with a simple mission: to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic using the knowledge and expertise of the nation's healthcare it leaders. While our mission is simple, achieving it is not. Opioid addiction is a complex disease that requires long-term, if not lifetime, care from well-informed clinicians who are supported with easy-to-use and reliable tools. Since its inception, the task force has made a substantial impact on the opioid crisis by providing education and resources for both chime members and non-members through our opioid action center podcast and webinars covering a range of topics, public policy advancements in both influence and member education, virtual and face-to-face meetings, and the development and launch of the opioid action center website.
$66,478 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $218,258.
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 $1.8M to $925k (−48%).
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.
85% of CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Russ Branzell
President & CEO
Board chair
Rusty Yeager
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $125k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $350k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHIME EDUCATION 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
CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
100% 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 CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 66% — 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
100% of CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHIME EDUCATION 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- College Healthcare Info Mgmt Execs · exempt
- Chime Foundation · exempt
- Chime Technologies Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHIME EDUCATION 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 CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($184,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $302,100 in grants to CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $184,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), 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