Michigan · Nonprofit
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM (Michigan) receives grants from 265 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,766,202 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,045,000). 148 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3B
- Funders on record
- 265
- Grants received
- $161M
- Net assets
- $2.4B
What Henry Ford Health System does
Mission
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care and healing. Founded in 1915 by auto pioneer henry ford, Henry Ford Health System dba henry ford health ("hf health") is a comprehensive, integrated and academic health system, providing both health care delivery and coverage, as well as a robust research and medical education training program. With more than 50,000 team members and nearly 10,000 affiliated physicians, researchers and advanced practice providers, the health system delivers exceptional and compassionate care at its 13 acute care hospitals, and over 550 care locations, including medical centers and clinics.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Committed to high-quality, patient-centered care to ensure that all individuals, regardless of background or socioeconomic status, receive world-class medical treatment. Henry ford health serves as a national leader in tertiary and quaternary care, drawing patients from across michigan and beyond for specialized treatments, including complex cancer care and advanced surgical procedures. Henry ford health is ranked among the top five nih-funded institutions in michigan, advancing groundbreaking research in population health and healthcare equity with multiple research projects focused on health disparities and chronic diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations.as a pioneer in value-based care, henry ford health is investing in models that prioritize keeping people healthy particularly the most vulnerable, focusing on chronic disease management for medicaid recipients and other underserved communities and improving with both patient access and operational efficiency.the organization operates henry ford health hospital (hfh), an 877 licensed bed tertiary, and quaternary care hospital, education and research complex in the new center area of detroit, michigan.…
$1,358,694,224 spentof which $4,630,206 as grants$2,225,572,310 earned by the program32% of program spendingOutpatient clinics: the organization includes the henry ford medical group (hfmg),one of the nation's largest group practices, with more than 1,900 physicians and researchers in more than 40 specialties at locations throughout southeast and central michigan, encompassing approximately 2.6 million total outpatient encounters annually. Henry ford's medical centers are located in wayne, oakland, macomb and jackson counties. Some medical group physicians also are on staff at other henry ford hospitals. Six medical centers provide 24-hour emergency care with several providing ambulatory surgery and primary stroke care. Founded in 1915 after consultations with physicians at johns hopkins hospital and the mayo clinic, the henry ford medical group has established itself as one of the premier group practices in the nation. Our large academic enterprise places us in the top three of traditionally independent group practices through:clinical care: the breadth and depth of the henry ford medical group's clinical services is unparalleled by any other independent academic medical center. Our scale and scope are in the 99th percentile of all group practices, with visit volumes larger than most…
$1,554,284,246 spent$1,505,759,103 earned by the program37% of program spendingEmergency room services: the organization directly operates six 24-hour emergency facilities, one of which is a level 1 trauma center located in the city of detroit. Emergency services revenues approximated $220 million during 2024 representing 238,503 patient visits.
$182,661,507 spent$80,013,067 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services includes hf health research services, along with hf health community care services, which offers a broad level of services at numerous geographic locations including nursing care, home care, senior care, pharmacies, eye care, hospice care, occupational health, dialysis; housing for medical residents & patient family members; fitness center & athletic training services, school based health programs and a dedicated cancer center. Research is a vital component of the mission of henry ford health. Henry ford health's mission is to improve human life through excellence in the science and art of health care and healing. This mission is strongly supported and enhanced by the dedicated staff's pursuit of scientific advancement.since 1915, henry ford hospital physicians and scientists have focused their efforts on a wide variety of topics critical to understanding the mechanisms of disease and developing new, viable treatment options. Henry ford hospital basic science research involves over 85 full-time phd faculty and their support staff and focuses on the following; cardiovascular research, hypertension and kidney, cancer research, bone and joint research,…
$1,101,560,277 spent$1,247,699,317 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,197,200,254.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.0B to $5.0B (+25%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
David J Breen
Director - chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 75 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $5.9M → $31M.
24 of 265 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $161M from 30 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Henry Ford Health System Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM raised.
From the IRS filings of HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 265 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
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
32% 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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 54% · 2019 54% · 2020 15% · 2021 10% · 2022 40% · 2023 47% — 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
42% of HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM's funders are still giving 3 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
64% of HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $233.2M on record — $233.1M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$215.1M
- Department of Defense$17.7M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$271k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$43k
- Department of Justice$31k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$4k
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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 62 related entities
- Mosaic Clinically Integrated Network LLC · disregarded
- Community Health Technology Network · disregarded
- P-Cor LLC · disregarded
- Healthy Population LLC · disregarded
- Henry Ford Physicians Accountable Care Org · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM?
- HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM (Michigan) receives grants from 265 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,766,202 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($31,045,000). 148 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 265 organizations giving $160,766,202 in grants to HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM, 148 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM?
- THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,045,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 265 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