California · Nonprofit
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,269 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($624,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $939k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks does
Mission
Healthy Community Forum for the Greater Sacramento Region operates under the name Community HealthWorks (formally Sacramento Covered), a not-for-profit philanthropic organization, is an innovative leader in developing and implementing a peer-driven, one-on-one, data-informed approach to connecting families and individuals to the health, behavioral health, social services, and community resources they need to lead healthy, productive lives. Our mission is to advance community, social and economic health one person at a time. Community HealthWorks (CoHeWo) is delivering on our mission to serve the most vulnerable and historically underserved communities through our Community Health Worker (CHW)-led programs: Health Navigation, Hospital Navigation, and Homeless Health which includes Reentry and Street Outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless Health Services - Field-based Outreach, Care Coordination, and Housing Supports for the CalAIM Program: Community HealthWorks (CoHeWo)s Homeless Health Services provides personalized, case management, housing support and tenancy support to individuals experiencing homelessness. CoHeWos team of Community Health Workers (CHW) is one of the largest field-based teams in Sacramento County. Since 2017, CoHeWo has provided outreach and engagement, data management, and robust housing navigation and tenancy support services to participants in Pathways to Health + Home (Pathways), the City of Sacramentos Whole Person Care Pilot. CoHeWo was also the only community-based organization certified to serve as a Community-Based Care Management Entity (CBCME) by the health plans in Sacramento County as part of their Health Homes Program between 2019 through 2021. Additionally, CoHeWo is contracted with all the Sacramento County health plans as an Enhanced Care Management and Housing Community Supports provider through the Department of Health Care Services CalAIM program. Since 2022, CoHeWo has deployed an impactful homeless street outreach program in coordination with Sacramento County…
$11,478,184 spent77% of program spendingHealth Navigation Program: Community HealthWorks (CoHeWo) is the Sacramento regions leading health access and enrollment assistance organization dedicated to achieving health care access and coordination for all area residents. CoHeWos diverse team of Community Health Workers on the Health Navigation team are embedded in community settings throughout the Greater Sacramento Region and provide health sustaining supportive services to address social determinants of health which include, but not limited to: health coverage enrollment (new applications renewals, reporting changes); Medi-Cal intercounty transfers, plan selection or changes to assigned provider/health plan; CalFresh application; primary, dental or vision care appointments; transportation services; interpreting services; education on health coverage and nutrition programs; cell phone and identification provision; as well as facilitating referrals to other critical resources such as WIC, legal services, in-home supportive services (IHSS) and child care. In 2019, Community HealthWorks expanded its navigation program to add a pediatric navigator program at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. In 2024, the Pediatric Navigation…
$2,219,024 spent15% of program spendingPatient Navigation Program: The Patient Navigation program is a unique partnership with local hospital systems (Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, UC Davis) to connect with patients visiting the Emergency Departments (ED) with Community Health Workers (CHWs) to address social determinants of health and navigate their healthcare system to achieve better health outcomes. Community HealthWorks manages a team of CHWs stationed in six local Emergency Departments (ED) throughout Sacramento County. ED CHWs are proven to be effective for ensuring lower-income, uninsured individuals are receiving Medi-Cal enrollment supports, navigation services for primary care, and long-term linkages to a health home. In 2024, CoHeWos Patient Navigation program provided over 65,900 services to 11,403 patients, who were seen in emergency departments for non-urgent, primary care reasons.
$1,293,423 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,990,631.
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 2019 to 2020, from $9.6M to $14M (+46%).
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 28% · 2018 53% · 2019 54% · 2020 51% · 2021 50% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kelly Bennett
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $158k → $133k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sutter Valley Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks raised.
From the IRS filings of Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks’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
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 99% · 2023 71% — 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
50% of Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k 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
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks 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 Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks?
- Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,269 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($624,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $939,269 in grants to Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $624,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks 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.
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 9 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