California · Nonprofit
HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL
HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,422,800 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($1,458,454). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Health Education Council does
Mission
The Health Education Council, Inc. (HEC) is a California nonprofit corporation serving to implement programs that impact the underlying drivers of health education, neighborhood safety, social connection, economic well-being, access to healthy resources that affect a persons ability to achieve health and well-being in the community of Sacramento. The Organization offers programs to improve health and wellbeing for all who live and work in the Sacramento area through innovation and partnerships and community driven programming. Working with youth and their families, the Organization aims to break cycles of poverty and improve quality of life for those served. For more than 30 years, addressing the social drivers of health in underserved communities has been the foundation of the Organizations work. The Organization supports this foundation by tapping into the power of collaboration. By partnering with and connecting the residents, businesses, organizations, leaders, and influencers alre
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Area: Health Access Place-Based Health Planning and Data UseAs lead for Invest Health Roseville, HEC convened partners to improve health and quality of life in Downtown Rosevilles core neighborhoods.In 20242025, the advisory committee:Met monthly to align resources and attract investments.Supported the redesign and reopening of Weber Park in May 2025, based on resident input.Helped launch an Accountable Community for Health (ACH) in Placer County.Through the City Health Dashboard Data Challenge, HEC and partners examined neighborhood-level data on 40 health measures related to jobs, workforce development, and health. Findings were shared with 75+ local stakeholders and informed future investments.Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) West Sacramento and PlacerHEC served as backbone convener for two Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) initiatives.West Sacramento ACH focused on cardiovascular health, healthy food access, physical activity, social connection, and later, COVID-19 response and food insecurity. In 20242025, HEC:Partnered to conduct listening sessions on social connection and isolation.Used findings to integrate social connection into an expanded mobile…
$945,341 spent30% of program spendingCommunity Safety Community Safety & Violence PreventionSHOP Youth Program and Exposure ExperiencesThe Safety, Health, Opportunity, and Practice (SHOP) Youth Program supported youth ages 1220 facing academic, social, or behavioral challenges across Yolo and Sacramento Counties.SHOP used a healing-centered approach to help youth:Process adverse childhood experiences.Build emotional regulation and communication skills.Strengthen conflict resolution and social skills.Develop financial literacy and work readiness.Understand the role of social and environmental factors in trauma and justice.From July 2024 to June 2025, SHOP:Hosted 17 cohorts (six to eight weeks each).Served 215 youth.Delivered more than 1,436 hours of health education, crisis intervention, and mentorship.HEC also launched SHOP: Just Add Water, an exposure-based extension led in collaboration with local fishing expert and youth mentor Robert Nakatomi. The program provided fishing trips, nature excursions, and life skills education to youth ages 1217 through eight Power of Exposure trips, serving 60 youth.The Community Safety team began expanding SHOP to additional sites, including Marina Vista, Alder Grove, Venture Lab…
$741,519 spent24% of program spendingWellness Education & Healthy LivingSchool and Youth NutritionThrough the Nutrition Education and Active Living (NEAL) initiative, HEC worked with Twin Rivers Unified, Robla, and Sacramento City Unified School Districts to improve student and family health and reduce childhood obesity.Delivered Harvest of the Month nutrition education to 1st6th graders, with support from California State University, Sacramento nursing interns.Provided teachers with tasting kits and lesson plans to support hands-on learning.Offered cooking workshop series and live demonstrations across schools.Supported a youth nutrition ambassador cohort at Luther Burbank High School with 14 student leaders.Reach (20242025):11,017 youth received direct nutrition education.748 parents/caregivers participated in workshops on healthy eating, budgeting, and beverages.58,002 students and family members were reached with indirect education at events.HEC expanded parent engagement with a 5-week nutrition series for Slavic fathers at Highlands High School, new parentchild nutrition series at Bowling Green Chacon and Nicholas Elementary, and the Family and Flavors multicultural cook-along pilot at Allison Elementary,…
$637,657 spent20% of program spendingSocial Connection Lay Mental Health Training and Community ProjectsThe Peers Helping Peers (PHP) initiative prepared youth and Spanish-speaking adults to reduce mental health stigma, build social connection, and pursue entry-level mental health roles.In 20242025, HEC led PHP cohorts for Spanish-speaking adults in three counties:Solano County: 2 trainings, 29 graduates, 6 community projects, and 5 participants engaged in outreach.Sacramento County: 1 training, 17 graduates, 8 community projects.Placer County (City of Lincoln): 1 training in July 2024, 14 graduates.Participant-led projects included youth soccer practices, crochet and piata classes, yoga, Harvesting Benefits for Your Happiness, embroidery circles, parent support programs, and anti-bullying campaigns.As part of Solano Countys Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), HEC used the PHP model to support Latino residents in Vacaville, Dixon, and Rio Vista through community mental health navigators, support groups, and presentations.Individual Mental Health Support and Early InterventionMente Sana, Vida Sana focused on Latino immigrant communities using culturally relevant screening tools and counseling.Between July 2024…
$518,915 spent17% of program spendingEconomic Well-Being Financial Education and NavigationThrough the Ventanilla de Asesora Financiera y Proteccin al Patrimonio (VAF) at the Mexican Consulate in Sacramento, HEC provided financial education and resource navigation for low-income community members.In 20242025, HEC:Reached over 34,000 community members through in-person and online workshops, monthly fairs, and daily presentations.Provided individual navigation to 2,041 people.Reached 20,889 people through Facebook Live sessions.Reached 466 individuals through financial education workshops.Engaged 10,780 individuals at monthly resource fairs and ongoing presentations.Topics included banking, home ownership, saving and budgeting, fraud protection, unemployment support for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, employment and retirement resources, and financial tools available in MexicoHEC also provided community financial literacy workshops in English and Spanish at sites such as Midtown Church, Robla Community Park, Elkhorn Village Elementary, Swanston Community Center, Westfield Elementary, Capital College & Career Academy (CCCA), Logan Park Apartments, and the HEC office, reaching 200+ participants.Workforce Partnerships…
$290,508 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,133,940.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $6.1M (+24%).
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 50% · 2018 75% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 41% · 2022 63% · 2023 54% · 2024 57% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $220k → $610k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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 EDUCATION COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 60% · 2019 47% · 2020 41% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 25% — 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
33% of HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
90% of HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $379k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALTH EDUCATION 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 California
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
98%
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 HEALTH EDUCATION 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 HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL?
- HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,422,800 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($1,458,454). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,422,800 in grants to HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $1,458,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL 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.
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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 30 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