California · Nonprofit
Connecting for Better Health
Connecting for Better Health (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,000 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Connecting for Better Health does
Mission
Connecting for Better Health brings together consumer groups, health care providers, health plans, and technology partners dedicated to advancing statewide health data exchange in California. The team members meet regularly as a coalition to hear from guest speakers, discuss recent regulations and policy guidance, share new research, and develop policy recommendations related to health data exchange. The team members also organize panels, highlight patient and provider stories, and develop educational materialsto inform policy makers and our members about the current health data exchange landscape and demonstrate urgency for action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
DxF Community Sandbox & Design Studio (Technical Assistance)Continued to operate California's statewide DxF Community Sandbox and Design Studio, hosting 13 Community Design Studios that developed 46 real-world use cases and produced the AB 352 Toolkit. Launched new real-world testing tools a Data Explorer, Validator Studio, and Launch Plan to help organizations test and validate priority data-exchange workflows using synthetic data. Piloted C4BH's first Health and Homelessness Community of Practice in partnership with Homebase and Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy Massive Data Institute, convening an initial cohort of eight California counties through quarterly convenings, targeted workgroups, and a shared resource wiki.
$1,173,144 spent$572,740 earned by the program58% of program spendingEducation & Implementation Resources:Expanded C4BH's education and outreach footprint, publishing 12 policy blogs, six fact sheets including Aligning State Contracts with the California Data Exchange Framework, Data Sharing to Advance California's Health Priorities, and Data Sharing Considerations for California's Behavioral Health Initiatives and the infographic Shared Data, Shared Purpose. Grew the C4BH Round-Up newsletter to 22 editions and roughly 1,200 subscribers, a 20% increase in audience with a 52% email open rate and debuted a refreshed newsletter layout. Hosted 20 coalition meetings featuring 24 guest presentations for roughly 1,500 attendees, held four in-person coalition meetups, and attended 26 conferences, tabling at five and presenting at seven. Convened C4BH's inaugural Annual Dinner, drawing 180 attendees, and organized the Annual DxF Summit, drawing 236 attendees across 8 panel discussions with 34 expert speakers.
$780,668 spent39% of program spendingPolicy & Advocacy Achieved a landmark legislative win in 2025, sponsoring SB 660 (Menjivar), the California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework bill, backed by six letters of support, six hearing testimonies, and 44 bill supporters; the bill was signed into law by Governor Newsom on October 3, 2025. Tracked 28 state bills related to data sharing, artificial intelligence, data collection, information privacy, data security, prior authorization, and telehealth, and engaged two CalHHS departments on Data Exchange Framework policy and implementation. Hosted C4BH's 2025 Day at the Capitol, coordinating 44 legislative office visits with 50 participating coalition partners. Submitted six public comment letters on the DHCS Medi-Cal Transformation Concept Paper, DHCS Data Sharing Authorization Guidance, the CMS Health Technology Request for Information, the HHS HIPAA Cybersecurity Proposed Rule, the CalHHS Centralized Roster Service Request for Information, and the CalHHS Data Exchange Framework Policies & Procedures offering recommendations grounded in real-world insights to advance coalition priorities. Amplified this work through two press releases and five media quote…
$67,339 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,021,151.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $44k (+398%).
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: 2024 37% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Connecting for Better Health’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Chaitali Pandit
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 Connecting for Better Health’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
Connecting for Better Health leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
84% 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 Connecting for Better Health.
“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 Connecting for Better Health's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
Connecting for Better Health receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Connecting for Better Health
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Connecting for Better Health: 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 Connecting for Better Health?
- Connecting for Better Health (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,000 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecting for Better Health have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $155,000 in grants to Connecting for Better Health.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecting for Better Health?
- CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecting for Better Health 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing