Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,522,656 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,450,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $69M
- Net assets
- $108M
What Health Resources in Action Inc does
Mission
Hria partners with individuals, organizations, and communities to transform the practices, policies, and systems that improve health and advance equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hria's grantmaking staff work with private individuals, bank trusts, foundations, hospitals, and government agencies to design customized grant programs that accelerate life science discoveries and advance community health. Each year, more than 100 internationally recognized research scientists and physicians from across the united states and europe serve on the scientific review committees and provide critical and unbiased evaluations of all applications and research progress reports. Additionally, over 75 health experts utilize their subject matter expertise to provide unbiased reviews of community health applications. Through life sciences consulting services, hria develops reports that can be tailored for either scientific or lay audiences for clients that wish to learn more about a specific disease or field of biomedical research. Hria's community health grantmaking program provides consultation and supports the disbursement of grant funds by government agencies, healthcare institutions, and philanthropy to advance community health and equity through investments in evidence-based and innovative strategies. Hria staff review, evaluate, and summarize relevant scientific and…
$26,429,180 spentof which $21,147,507 as grants$5,103,464 earned by the program36% of program spendingHria's capacity building assistance staff collaborate with individuals, organizations, and communities to build individual skills and organizational infrastructure to improve public health and achieve health and racial equity. The capacity building assistance staff offer a range of services, including training, technical assistance, technical services, and information dissemination. Training includes interactive in-person and web-based skill-building. Technical assistance includes expert consultation and coaching on how to develop operational, managerial, technological, programmatic, or administrative systems. Technical services include the direct provision of professional services or the implementation of tasks to support operational, managerial, technological, programmatic, or administrative systems. Information dissemination (or communication) includes the collection, packaging, and sharing of evidence-based information, tools, resources, and best practices. Hria staff are skilled at working with and across multiple sectors and engaging nontraditional partners to build the capacity of coalitions, organizations, communities, and the public health workforce, including youth,…
$13,678,689 spentof which $4,247,068 as grants$2,642,399 earned by the program19% of program spendingHria's public health services (phs) team provides technical implementation services, including statewide helplines for substance use and problem gambling, as well as the distribution of health promotion and harm reduction materials. Services within public health services include the clearinghouse which distributes millions of units of public safety, health, and harm reduction materials to providers and communities each year. Public health services also leads and operates a portfolio of six substance use and problem gambling helplines across four states: massachusetts substance use helpline, massachusetts problem gambling helpline, illinois helpline for opioids and other substances, illinois problem gambling helpline, vermont help link, and oregon behavioral health resource network helpline.
$11,364,433 spentof which $3,500 as grants$2,195,340 earned by the program16% of program spendingHria's partnerships program provides fiscal sponsorship and other support to advance the work of several initiatives. Hria's approach to fiscal sponsorship is synergistic and generative, wherein we and our fiscally sponsored programs mutually benefit from our collaborative activities and a shared vision of health and racial equity. With the programmatic oversight of independent multi-disciplinary advisory boards, these organizations and the staff work with hria to determine the appropriate level of engagement and collaboration.hria's current roster of fiscally sponsored programs includes:machw, massachusetts association of community health workersnachw, national association of community health workers the havi, the health alliance for violence interventionmcsic, massachusetts coalition for serious illness carecplan, collaborative parent leadership action networkthe positive deviance initiativecommunity health worker center for research & evaluationh2hc, hunger to health collaboratoryvtphi, vermont public health institute in addition to partnerships, hria also had health & racial equity programs as well as research and evaluation programs during the year ending june 30, 2025.
$21,115,496 spentof which $2,614,749 as grants$4,079,014 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,587,798.
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.
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 $34M to $72M (+113%).
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 67% · 2018 78% · 2019 85% · 2020 44% · 2021 48% · 2022 88% · 2023 81% · 2024 62% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Fatimah Loren Muhammad
Executive director, the havi
Board chair
Magnolia Contreras
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $985k → $17M.
20 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RESOURCES IN ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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 RESOURCES IN ACTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
76% 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 RESOURCES IN ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 61% · 2019 23% · 2020 32% · 2021 15% · 2022 37% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 RESOURCES IN ACTION INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205.3M on record — $73.0M federal, $132.3M state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$61.4M
- Department of Justice$8.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
- Department of Labor$350k
- MA$121.9M
- VT$6.6M
- OR$3.3M
- CT$463k
- NJ$225
- DE$150
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 RESOURCES IN ACTION 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.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 RESOURCES IN ACTION 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 RESOURCES IN ACTION INC?
- HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,522,656 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,450,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $68,522,656 in grants to HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 127 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