California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,440 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ($507,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $693k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Institute for Healthcare Advancement does
Mission
Iha's mission is "empowering people to better health" through social services, education and healthcare information delivery services, and learning and networking opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Publications - iha writes and publishes the what to do for health book series, self-help health books written at a 3rd to 5th grade reading level. Each book in this easy-to-read, easy to-use series is well organized, with accompanying illustrations, and information presented with four basic questions: what is it? What do I see? What can I do at home? And when do ineed to call the nurse or doctor? All titles are available in english or spanish, and severaltitles are also available in other translations including burmese, chinese, korean, orvietnamese. To date, over 6 million books have been sold throughout the united states andinternationally. Additionally, iha has launched a "micro-pub" series, smaller/shorterpublications focusing on chronic health conditions (such as diabetes and high blood pressure)and mental health issues (including anxiety).
$1,003,433 spent$852,789 earned by the program23% of program spendingLa habra family resource center - this program provides a complete, family-centered support system, working with community resources that can address the health, emotional, social, and environmental needs of children and their families throughout north orange county. Services under this program include: family advocacy, parenting education classes, domestic violence and child abuse prevention efforts, information and referral services, individual/family/group counseling, legal help, and more.
$812,133 spent18% of program spendingHealth literacy programs - a fee-based consulting service is available to organizations wishing to make their health information more accessible, understandable, and usable to their audience. Rewriting services, trainings, health literacy systems integration, and program implementation are offered. The institute launched "health literacy research and practice" in 2017, an open access, peer-reviewed online journal, to serve health literacy professionals.iha developed a portal for health literacy professionals, the health literacy solutions center. This portal provides health literacy professionals a way to network with one another, advance their professional development, find, and share resources, and participate in educational activities. Membership on the site is free. The site also hosts a discussion list, with a base of more than 16,000 health literacy professionals. In addition, iha launched itsassessment-based health literacy specialist certificate for health literacy professionals in november 2021.
$1,149,240 spent$595,378 earned by the program26% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,493,930 spentof which $15,000 as grants$106,695 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,458,736.
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 2021 to 2022, from $31M to $24M (−21%).
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 14% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 40% · 2021 4% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Michael Villaire Mslm
Chairman/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $52k → $407k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $111k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $582k 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
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126k on record.
- DE$121k
- VT$3k
- OR$2k
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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT: 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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT?
- INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,440 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ($507,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $693,440 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT?
- ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $507,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT 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 7 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