Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION
NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,672 to it, the largest being UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION ($64,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What National Hospice Foundation does
Mission
We envision a world where everyone facing serious illness, death, and grief will experience the best that humankind can offer. Nhf, the fundraising affiliate of the national hospice and palliative care organization (nhpco), is dedicated to creating resources for individuals and their families facing serous and life-limiting illness, raising awareness and increasing access to hospice and palliative care, and providing ongoing professional education and skills development to hospice and palliative care professionals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The National Hospice Foundation (nhf), the fundraising affiliate of the national hospice and palliative care organization (nhpco), is dedicated to creating resources for individuals and their families facing serious and life-limiting illness, raising awareness and increasing access to hospice and palliative care, and providing ongoing professional education and skills development to hospice and palliative care professionals.nhf has numerous programs and fund that help achieve these goals including the lighthouse of hope fund, designed to grant special wishes to end-of-life hospice patients; grief/bereavement support to those preparing for end of life and their families; the workforce emergency support fund, which provides financial support for hospice providers and staff who have been affected by emergency events, and the lighthouse of hope fund, which helps provide financial support to fulfill last wishes. These services are made possible by financial contributors and donors. In 2024, nhf provided scholarship funds for nhpco conference registrations for individual members. Thanks to the generous financial contribution this scholarship program enablednumerous nhpco members to…
$27,862 spentof which $27,862 as grants100% of program spendingIn september 2024, nhf held an exclusive in-person fundraising event in conjunction with the national hospice and palliative care organization's 2024 annual leadership conference. This gala raised funds for the emergency workforce support fund, a national program designed to support hospice workforce needs in the wake of an emergency event.this event featured plated dinners in an upscale setting with entertainment, live and silent auctions, and awards presentations.the annual fundraising gala included musical performances, as well as special networking opportunities for attendees. A live auction and live fundraising appeal were also held, providing attendees with an opportunity to further contribute to the evening's fundraising source. Revenue for this event came from sponsorships, ticket sales, live auction sales, and an interactive "paddle raise" for donations. During the nhpco's virtual interdisciplinary conference in april 2024, nhf had a virtual presence to promote attendee donations and promote usage of the available programs. Attendees were also encouraged to make tax-deductible contributions during their conference registration.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,862.
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 2020 to 2021, from $681k to $983k (+44%).
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.
111% of NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Ben Marcantonio
Interim CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $49k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $75k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL HOSPICE 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
NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 HOSPICE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 58% · 2021 76% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — 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
30% of NATIONAL HOSPICE 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
NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k 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
NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL HOSPICE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
24% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- National Alliance for Care at Home Leadership Foundation Inc · exempt
- Alliance for Care at the End of Life · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,672 to it, the largest being UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION ($64,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $264,672 in grants to NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION?
- UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 17 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