Texas · Nonprofit
LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION
LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,771 to it, the largest being MAYS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Louise H Batz Patient Safety Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Louise H Batz Patient Safety Foundation is to help prevent medical errors by ensuring patients and families have the knowledge needed to promote a safe hospital experience for their loved ones, and to support innovative advancements in patient safety.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Batz program guide for patient safety serves all people in the united states. The program guides serve anyone who plans to receive or has a loved one planning to receive medical treatment in the united states. All program guides are designed and issued to be used by patients to better prepare each medical team and patient to aid the care team in the reduction of adverse events and medical errors which cause death or medical malpractice. Our program guides are provided to healthcare institutions across the united states. In 2025, foundation continued ongoing guide development.
$208,924 spent$238,157 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $208,924.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $104k to $152k (+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.
100% of LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Laura Townsend
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $283.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION’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
LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 44% · 2019 67% · 2020 66% · 2021 39% · 2022 65% · 2023 88% — 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
43% of LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
94% of LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION's revenue fell 17% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,771 to it, the largest being MAYS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $158,771 in grants to LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- MAYS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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