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Health Frontiers

Health Frontiers (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,046 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($62,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$110k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$96k
Net assets
$330k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Health Frontiers does

Mission

Health Frontiers hf is an outreach of health professionals founded in 1991 and focused on outcomes in global health and child development that depend on a volunteer effort.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Laos project - this has been our flagship project since our inception. Hundreds of volunteers have helped the lao university of health sciences establish the first graduate medical education training programs in lao history. It has grown into successful training programs in pediatrics internal medicine and emergency medicine. Graduates are now helping to transform healthcare in one of asias neediest populations and taking increasing responsibility for the residency programs. We are now able to reduce our support for these programs while increasing our support for the subspecialty training of lao graduates in collaboration with khon kaen university and other regional centers.

    $110,735 spentof which $66,541 as grants
    87% of program spending
  2. Children in conflict and humanitarian disasters - Health Frontiers provides training for relief workers to assist children in conflict and humanitarian emergencies. We also supply material support for feel better packs distributed to aid children affected by these emergencies.

    $1,500 spent
    1% of program spending
  3. Muang sing noma project-provides support for the secondary and higher education for poor childred in rural northern laos as well as for people suffering from the devastating effects of noma.

    $15,002 spentof which $15,002 as grants
    12% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $127,237.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($268k)2018 Revenue 67 ($110k) Expenses 119 ($188k) Net assets 70 ($188k)2019 Revenue 164 ($272k) Expenses 89 ($141k) Net assets 119 ($319k)2020 Revenue 32 ($53k) Expenses 75 ($119k) Net assets 99 ($265k)2021 Revenue 27 ($45k) Expenses 66 ($104k) Net assets 83 ($221k)2022 Revenue 156 ($259k) Expenses 70 ($111k) Net assets 137 ($368k)2023 Revenue 52 ($87k) Expenses 74 ($117k) Net assets 123 ($330k)2024 Revenue 63 ($104k) Expenses 105 ($166k) Net assets 120 ($323k)2025 Revenue 67 ($110k) Expenses 81 ($127k) Net assets 123 ($330k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (81)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

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 $221k to $368k (+66%).

$268k
$188k
$319k
$265k
$221k
$368k
$330k
$323k
$330k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of Health Frontiers’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$78k
’18
$131k
’19
−$67k
’20
−$59k
’21
$147k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$62k
’24
−$17k
’25
2.7
months of
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.

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Listed989999111010
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·10000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Frontiers’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 Frontiers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 Frontiers.

65%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

89% of Health Frontiers'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.

MD
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Health Frontiers's revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Health Frontiers receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$25k

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 Frontiers

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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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Health Frontiers: 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 Frontiers?
Health Frontiers (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,046 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($62,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Health Frontiers have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $96,046 in grants to Health Frontiers, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Health Frontiers?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Health Frontiers find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 6 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