Skip to content

Minnesota · Nonprofit

Healtheast Medical Research Institute

Healtheast Medical Research Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$171M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$-217059306
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Healtheast Medical Research Institute does

Mission

Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. HealthEast Medical Research Institute operates medical clinics for the treatment of the sick and infirmed to enhance the accessibility, quality and cost efficiency of medical and health care services rendered to the community while also conducting medical research. The outpatient revenue of the medical clinics includes payments from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The institute uses medical information collected from the treatment of patients to establish and expand a database to conduct various medical research activities relating to health care in conjunction with related hospitals for the benefit of the public. Accordingly, the treatment of patients is an essential and integral part of the research activity of the institute. HealthEast Medical Research Institute includes HealthEast Clinics' staff members that are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate health care. Our clinic locations are in neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities East Metro area. Our providers include board-certified doctors, certified nurse midwives and nurse practitioners. HealthEast Medical Institute Clinics offer a full range of services for patients of all ages. HealthEast Medical…

    $188,438,032 spent$166,793,007 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $188,438,032.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($112M) Expenses 100 ($144M)2019 Revenue 99 ($111M) Expenses 93 ($133M)2020 Revenue 81 ($90M) Expenses 92 ($132M)2021 Revenue 109 ($121M) Expenses 100 ($144M)2022 Revenue 130 ($145M) Expenses 125 ($180M)2023 Revenue 142 ($158M) Expenses 132 ($189M)2024 Revenue 154 ($171M) Expenses 139 ($200M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (154)Expenses (139)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 2018 to 2019, from $21M to $52M (+145%).

$21M
$52M
$39M
$41M
$44M
$41M
$41M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of Healtheast Medical Research Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32M
’18
−$23M
’19
−$42M
’20
−$23M
’21
−$35M
’22
−$31M
’23
−$29M
’24
0.0
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.

Chief executive

James Hereford

President & CEO

Board chair

RIch Ostlund

Chair, END 12-2024

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202024
Listed34403638
Joined·+12+6·
No longer listed·610·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
2

Left out of every figure on this page: $809k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fairview Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Healtheast Medical Research Institute raised.

From the IRS filings of Healtheast Medical Research Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.

Where its funders are

Healtheast Medical Research Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Healtheast Medical Research Institute has grown faster than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Organizations like Healtheast Medical Research Institute

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 20 related entities

  • Ebenezer Society · exempt
  • Fairview Foundation · exempt
  • Fairview Health Services · exempt
  • Fairview Home Care and Hospice · exempt
  • Fairview Physician Associates Netwo · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Healtheast Medical Research Institute: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Healtheast Medical Research Institute?
Healtheast Medical Research Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Healtheast Medical Research Institute have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to Healtheast Medical Research Institute.
Who is the largest funder of Healtheast Medical Research Institute?
American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Healtheast Medical Research Institute 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.

Play a game about who funds Healtheast Medical Research Institute →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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