Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE
ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,527,574 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,530,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Essential Hospitals Institute does
Mission
Essential Hospitals Institute leads research, education, dissemination, and leadership development for america's essential hospitals. To advance the quality, safety, and affordability of care at essential hospitals, the institute identifies promising practices in the field, provides professional development training, promotes practice improvements, and disseminates innovative approaches to care. It does this with an eye toward improving individual and population health through community-integrated health care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants and healthcare:the essential hospital institute ("institute") continued to address the significant issues facing public hospitals, safety net organizations, communities, and related health policy issues of national priority. The institute's grant-supported research expands institutional knowledge on population health, patient-centered care, delivery system transformation, quality performance and improvement, and leadership development.the institute's work in 2024 emphasized three core areas: opioid use disorder (oud) workforce development, operational and facility preparedness, and community-integrated healthcare.opioid use disorder (oud) and workforce support:- with support from the cvs health foundation, the institute continued a four-year initiative to improve access to care for individuals with oud through three one-year learning collaboratives. The second collaborative was facilitated in 2024, including a site visit with all participating member hospitals. Recruitment began for the third and final cohort, which launched in november.facility preparedness and operational efficiency:- the kresge foundation supported a follow-up grant to identify resources for member…
$1,390,687 spentof which $400,042 as grants60% of program spendingLeadership development and education:to support safety-net hospitals and health systems in advancing community health, the institute provided a wide range of educational and member services in 2024. These offerings included:- webinars and podcasts: covering timely topics relevant to hospital leadership and public health.- conference workshops: interactive sessions at national events to build leadership capacity.- leadership programs: structured opportunities for learning, collaboration, and strategic planning.these programs served as vital forums for members to exchange ideas, address emerging challenges, and develop strategies to improve the social and economic determinants of health in their communitieswhile fostering professional growth and leadership networks.through our fellows program, a 12-month development curriculum for rising senior leaders in clinical or administrative roles at member hospitals, we educated participants on key issues affecting essential hospitals. This included strategies for building strategic leadership and advocacy skills and strengthening networks across the safety-net hospital community.
$515,070 spentof which $9 as grants$784,167 earned by the program22% of program spendingResearch:the institute published eight reports, briefs, and blogs on research topics, including our annual report, essential data 2024: our hospitals, our patients. We also shared our research findings through panel and poster presentations at national conferences.
$411,978 spentof which $7 as grants18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,317,735.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.0M to $11M (+58%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Bruce Siegel
President & CEO, recording secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $125k → $1.5M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest America's Essential Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE’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
ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- America's Essential Hospitals · exempt
- America's Essential Hospitals Political Action Committee · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE: 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 ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE?
- ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,527,574 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,530,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,527,574 in grants to ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 5 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