Missouri · Nonprofit
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,337,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $929M
What Health Forward Foundation does
Mission
Health Forward Foundation's mission is to achieve health equity and secure a fair and just region through leadership, advocacy, and resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Four purpose areas: health forward's new purpose areas include: people, which seeks to center equity and remove barriers in the health care system; power, which focuses on advancing civic engagement, amplifying community-driven movements, and supporting community-based nonprofits; place, which focuses on two influential social factors: housing and digital access; and platform, which focuses on advancing racial equity and economic inclusion in systems, policies and stories.
$35,576,464 spentof which $29,857,386 as grants95% of program spendingProgrammatic investments: health forward provided low-interest rate loans to nonprofit organizations that have a strong track record of constructing safe and affordable housing in economically excluded communities.
$759,735 spentof which $637,604 as grants2% of program spendingHealth sciences pathway: health forward established the health sciences pathways fund. This board designated fund provided grants to grow and support pathways for people underrepresented in the health profession to strengthen the regions' health care workforce in service to health forward's communities of focus with a goal to eliminate health disparities and foster economic inclusion.
$1,288,063 spentof which $1,081,121 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,624,262.
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 2021 to 2022, from $962M to $838M (−13%).
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.
3% of HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
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
Qiana Thomason
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $15M.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 FORWARD 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
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FORWARD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $175k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M 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
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves 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 HEALTH FORWARD 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Community Advisory Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION: 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 FORWARD FOUNDATION?
- HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,337,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,337,500 in grants to HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 3 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