Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC
HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,692,741 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,423,374). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Health Care Cost Institute Inc does
Mission
Hcci provides access to health care cost and utilization data to researchers and policymakers trying to understand the factors influencing health care costs and price transparency.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Programs
Hcci publishes a "health care cost and utilization report" annually. In addition, they publish issue briefs, and provide reasearch licenses.
$3,225,270 spentThe organization maintains a price transparency website called healthprices.org which displays pricing for health services on national, state and local levels free of cost.
$289,111 spentThe hcci became the first qualified entity under the aca. They accumulate data from the centers for medicare & medicaid and report pulbicly on the data.
$128,179 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 $11M to $8.4M (−20%).
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
Katie Martin
CEO/president
Board chair
Kathe Fox Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $441k → $1.6M.
From the IRS filings of HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC’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
HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 46% — 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
75% of HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 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.
Against its field
HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $913k on record — $313k federal, $600k state.
- Federal Trade Commission$193k
- Department of Health and Human Services$75k
- Department of Commerce$45k
- CONSULTING SERVICES - GENERAL $600k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC
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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC: 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 HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC?
- HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,692,741 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,423,374). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $12,692,741 in grants to HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,423,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC 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 8 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