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KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Republic Bank Foundation Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$1.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Ky Hospital Research & Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide charitable and education activities to foster the improvement of the health of the people of kentucky through educational programs designed to improve the knowledge of healthcare employees; to establish collaboratives to enhance the preparedness of kentucky hospitals and other health care organizations in responding to disasters, emergencies and trauma; to support the advancement of critical access and small rural hospitals to improve quality of care and financial viability; to identify health care workforce shortages areas and to establish collaboratives among hospitals to address infection prevention/control issues.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Administer kentucky's hospital and disaster preparedness activities including education and training for hospitals, health departments, and other community health services employees related to emergency preparedness in kentucky. Coordinate purchase of emergency anddisaster preparedness equipment and emergency communications with kentucky's emergency medical services regions.

    $4,254,553 spent
    44% of program spending

  2. Ky hospital research & education foundation (khref) will provide resources and lead the effort for kentucky hospitals to adopt the highest level of quality and harm avoidance that fits within the kha mission of sustaining and improving the health status of the citizens of kentucky. Khref seeks to expand and sustain a comprehensive, equitable approach to address all avoidable patient harm and promote the highest possible health status for all individuals throughout kentucky.

    $3,458,334 spent
    36% of program spending

  3. Ky hospital research & education foundation (khref) will provide resources and lead the effort for kentucky hospitals to adopt the highest level of opioid stewardship performance that fits within the kha mission of sustaining and improving the health status of the citizens of kentucky. Khref seeks to expand and sustain a comprehensive, equitable recovery-oriented system of care to address opioid use disorder (oud) and stimulant use disorder (sud) for all individuals throughout kentucky.

    $1,110,009 spentof which $750,000 as grants
    11% of program spending

  4. Administer the us department of health and human services' aspr covid grant to reimburse hospitals' covid related expenses. Provide educational programming for hospital personnel in the areas of compliance, quality, accreditation standards, and management training.

    $889,763 spentof which $8,000 as grants$200,587 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,712,659.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 116 ($2.9M) Expenses 112 ($2.8M) Net assets 109 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 140 ($3.5M) Expenses 142 ($3.5M) Net assets 109 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 121 ($3.0M) Expenses 128 ($3.2M) Net assets 99 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 183 ($4.5M) Expenses 176 ($4.3M) Net assets 126 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 576 ($14M) Expenses 564 ($14M) Net assets 137 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 294 ($7.3M) Expenses 301 ($7.4M) Net assets 132 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 388 ($9.6M) Expenses 394 ($9.7M) Net assets 133 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 402 ($10.0M) Expenses 415 ($10M) Net assets 122 ($1.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (402)Expenses (415)Net assets (122)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.9M to $13M (+84%).

$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$6.9M
$13M
$15M
$12M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 77% · 2018 83% · 2019 87% · 2020 93% · 2021 90% · 2022 93% · 2023 79% · 2024 57% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$105k
’18
−$31k
’19
−$155k
’20
$193k
’21
$345k
’22
−$134k
’23
−$93k
’24
−$280k
’25
9.8
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.

Board chair

Gerard Colman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed676698111010
Joined·+2+1+4+3+0+4+1+0
No longer listed·12401120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kentucky Hospital Association). These are real filings, and they are not money KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY

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

Organizations like KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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 Kentucky

Kentucky Hospital Association90%Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation Inc86%Kentucky Voices for Health Inc86%Kentucky Pharmacy Education & Research Foundation Inc85%Kentuckiana Health Collaborative84%Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc83%The Arh Foundation for Healthier Communities Inc83%Kentucky Psychological Foundation83%

Nationally

Kentucky Hospital Association90%Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation Inc86%Kentucky Voices for Health Inc86%Kentucky Pharmacy Education & Research Foundation Inc85%Kentuckiana Health Collaborative84%Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation84%Hawaii Hospital Education & Research Fdn83%Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc83%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Kentucky Hospital Association · exempt
  • Kentucky Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Inc · exempt
  • Kentucky Hospital Service Company of Ky LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Republic Bank Foundation Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
Republic Bank Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KY HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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