California · Nonprofit
HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,432,607 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($19,359,794). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $112M
- Net assets
- $619M
What Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation does
Mission
See schedule o.kff fills the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues through policy analysis, polling & survey research, and journalism. The hallmark of kff is our focus on how policy affects people. We believe in the importance of evidence, information and facts. We provide a voice for people who don't always have a seat at the table. We never try to achieve any particular policy, or take positions or advocate for policies or programs. We want to ensure that debate is informed by credible and timely information - whether it's a policy analysis, a poll, or a kff health news story or investigation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Policy - through our policy work we produce information, facts and analysis in a variety of key national health policy arenas. Kff policy experts work mainly on analyzing how people fare in the largest public health insurance programs - including medicare, medicaid and the affordable care act, and in private health insurance. In addition, we have special expertise in understanding racial and ethnic equity issues in health care, hiv, women's health policy and the nation's role in global health policy.
$23,967,945 spent39% of program spendingJournalism - kff health news, our credentialed, nonprofit, editorially-independent news service, is committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. Kff health news provides the highest quality news coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels, in the marketplace and how they affect people. Kff health news serves as the premier source of health policy journalism distributing our content through dozens of partner news organizations who run kff health news stories, among them the washington post, npr, new york times, usa today, mcclatchy newspapers, chicago tribune, philadelphia inquirer and a broad range of broadcast partners.
$24,024,480 spent39% of program spendingPublic opinion & survey research program conducts and analyzes original research on americans' attitudes, knowledge and experiences with the health care system with the goal of amplifying the public's voice in major national debates, particularly the voice of often-disenfranchised groups such as the low income and uninsured. Kff conducts polls itself and in partnership with major news organizations.
$7,421,035 spent12% of program spendingSocial impact media - we develop and help run large-scale, public health information campaigns in the u.s. By working with major media, other corporate allies, health departments, national leadership and community organizations. These large-scale, multi-faceted public information partnerships focus mostly at reaching people most at risk of hiv and currently focus on the south under the umbrella name greater than aids. The health misinformation and trust initiative - in late fall 2022, kff began to develop this new program to identify and address misinformation and disinformation in health. Kff makes no programmatic grants. Grants consist of trustee special project grants and matching gifts, which qualify as grants, and are listed on schedule I.
$6,479,973 spentof which $565,144 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,893,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1B to $860M (−22%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Drew Altman
Trustee, president & CEO
Board chair
Olympia Snowe
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $3.7M → $11M.
4 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 36% · 2020 23% · 2021 59% · 2022 20% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION'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
HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $318k on record.
- DE$268k
- MD$50k
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 J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Kf Fintech LLC · disregarded
- Liberty Ship LLC · disregarded
- Kf Ps Walnut Creek LLC · disregarded
- 57 Stars Global Opp Fund 4-Co-Investment Sleeve LP · partnership
- Kaiserfp Private Equity Fund LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION?
- HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,432,607 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($19,359,794). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $112,432,607 in grants to HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,359,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 45 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