Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,818,578 to it, the largest being Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ($8,808,378). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What National Association for Healthcare Quality does
Mission
To prepare individuals and organizations to lead, inspire, and advance healthcare quality and safety across the continuum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The association provides continuing education courses, products, and events for the healthcare quality discipline.
Develops and administers a certification exam and recertification.
Provides educational tools and materials to advance workforce healthcare competencies and improve healthcare quality.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.3M to $9.6M (+16%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Stephanie Mercado
CEO and executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY.
“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
100% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Against its field
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5.1M
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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Healthcare Quality Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY: 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,818,578 to it, the largest being Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ($8,808,378). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,818,578 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY?
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is the largest funder on record, with $8,808,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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