Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Global Health Council
Global Health Council (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,259,345 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,758,048). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Global Health Council does
Mission
Global Health Council is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers, and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide. The Global Health Council, inc. (the "council"ghc") was incorporated in 1972 as a non-profit organization. The council envisions a world where health for all is ensured through equitable, inclusive, and sustainable investment, policies, and services and is dedicated to improving health globally through increased investment, robust policies, and the power of the collective voice. The council takes a "big tent" approach to membership encompassing the widest representation of the global health community as possible and designs its services to respond to the evolving needs of our constituents. The council supports its membership through three primary functions: (1) convening: networking, partnership and coordination amongst members and between members and external stakeholders; (2) communicating: providing a learnin
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy and advocacy engage with the global health community around today's most important global health priorities. Ghc meets with u.s. Congressional and administration leaders to advocate for increased visibility, leadership, and investment on global health policy and budget priorities. Ghc works in partnership wtih the global health advocacy community to emphasize the importance of sustained funding levels and push for other critical global health 'asks encourages ghc members to gather at our evening salons to catch up with colleagues, discuss policies and practices, and share ideas. Ghc makes available an advocacy resource hub to find information on initiatives and advocacy tools, including the global health briefing book, messaging, data, documents, and impact stories.
$684,650 spent67% of program spendingMember engagement enjoy strategic participation at high-level meetings and other global events. Identify, analyze, and share policy and advocacy priorities pre-world health assembly (wha) and united nations general assembly (unga) through ghc-facilitated policy scrums. Plan participation at global meetings, events, and policy summits through ghc logistical support and updates, including a master calendar of events. Share takeaways in post-events debriefs; provide commentary through blog posts and social media; and join the ghc community in planning follow-up action to events. Facilitate gatherings at monthly salons to discuss policies and practices, and to share ideas.
$339,829 spent$541,130 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,024,479.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $2.2M (+98%).
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: 2017 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of Global Health Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
President & CEO
Board chair
Amy Boldosser-Boesch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $271k → $1.3M.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Global Health Council’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
Global Health Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 66% · 2018 82% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 77% · 2022 39% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Global Health Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Global Health Council draws 88% 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Global Health Council holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Global Health Council
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Global Health Council: 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 Global Health Council?
- Global Health Council (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,259,345 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,758,048). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Global Health Council have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,259,345 in grants to Global Health Council, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Global Health Council?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,758,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Global Health Council 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.
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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 12 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