Washington · Nonprofit
EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION
EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,365,886 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($11,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $87M
What Empire Health Foundation does
Programs
Improving quality of life for older adults and elders. 2023 represented the final year of a 3-year externally funded effort. The purpose of the project was to improve the quality of life for older adults, with a focus on american indian/alaska native and hispanic/latinx elders, in rural eastern washington by promoting healthy, active aging through community led care coordination and comprehensive medication management. While the program's efforts and accomplishments were extensive, the following represent a selection of program achievements: approximately 686 individuals were served through health coaching and advanced medication care coordination services between april 2020 and december 2023. Patient activation measure (pam) scores increased by 17% during this time. Additionally, among our advanced medication care coordination partners, we saw a 34.1% increase in cantril's ladder assessment scores across a program participant population of 170.
$1,029,963 spentA contract with the washington department of commerce to achieve housing stability for persons relocated from targeted state of washington rights of way within the city of spokane. The pre-eminent task accomplished through june of 2023 was to close the largest homeless encampment in the state, "camp hope", which at one point had over 600 individuals occupying a single city block. Services included initially stabilizing the camp hope environment and identifying its residents. Services then transitioned to housing referrals, resource referrals, emergency assistance, outreach and move-in assistance among others. Based on data from february 2024, 529 individuals were enrolled in the program. Of those, 80 were identified as having obtained permanent housing, with another 74 in area shelters awaiting housing. A significant portion still need attention, with 116 living in places not meant for habitation and 251 whose circumstances are unknown. Outreach and placement efforts are ongoing.
$5,449,812 spentAn externally funded effort supporting the continued growth and stabilization of the "peers at the front door" collaborative, a perinatal peer support delivery model. Specifically for the 2023 year, supporting the integration of maternal and/or infant mental health and/or substance use consultation into the "peers at the front door" initiative and developing a shared approach and training to perinatal peer support. This involved building a cohort of collaborative organizations that use peers (those with lived experience) to meet the needs of vulnerable pregnant parents and their infants. For 2024 and beyond, the foundation stepped back from its intermediary role to allow direct funding to and oversight by the collaborative organizations.
$729,478 spentA board designated $2 million spending initiative over 3 years (2023 being the second year). The program provides grants to qualifying charitable organizations benefitting targeted underserved communities to assist with funding of capital projects, principally in the nature of real estate acquisitions. In 2023, the foundation funded 6 organizations aggregating $1,175,000 in total. Two of these grants were partially conditional based upon various metrics/milestones and could reasonably be expected to result in additional funding of $500,000 in 2024.
$1,175,000 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $103M to $81M (−22%).
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
Sharon Fairchild
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.5M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 EMPIRE HEALTH 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
EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 76% · 2022 98% · 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
EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EMPIRE HEALTH 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,365,886 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($11,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $12,365,886 in grants to EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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