Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH (Colorado) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,945,706 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($21,597,373). 359 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375M
- Funders on record
- 595
- Grants received
- $114M
- Net assets
- $254M
What National Jewish Health does
Mission
National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and finding cures for the diseases we research; and, by educating and training the next generation of healthcare professionals to be leaders in medicine and science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National Jewish Health is a nationally recognized, academic medical center with specialized expertise in the evaluation and management of respiratory, cardiac, allergic and immunologic diseases. National Jewish Health serves as a referral center for patients across the United States, particularly for those patients with diseases that are exceptionally difficult to diagnose and/or treat. National Jewish Health provides care to adult and pediatric patients on both an inpatient and outpatient basis and offers a comprehensive spectrum of clinical services. Clinical services include but are not limited to: pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine, allergy /immunology, occupational and environmental health sciences, cardiology, pulmonary, hypertension, rheumatology, gastroenterology, infectious disease and mycobacterial infections, cystic fibrosis, neurology, neuromuscular medicine and ALS, thoracic surgery, immediate care, otolaryngology and oncology. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, National Jewish Health provided over 120,285 outpatient visits. Additionally, our physicians provided over 6,011 inpatient encounters, primarily critical care services, pulmonary consultative…
$243,412,228 spent$233,308,135 earned by the program72% of program spendingNational Jewish Health receives various types of grants. In addition to the above, National Jewish Health received $56,915,359 of funding through grants which are included in Part VIII (revenues), lines 1e and 1f. National Jewish Health conducts extensive basic, translational and clinical biomedical research. In addition to translational research programs in its areas of clinical specialties, National Jewish Health conducts research in basic immunology, genetics, proteomics, cell biology, signal transduction, structural biology, cancer biology, and oxidant biology. Research activities have resulted in a number of scientific discoveries that have improved care for patients worldwide. National Jewish received a federal contract renewal to continue funding our COPDGene research and network. Funds for National Jewish Health's research are provided by grants from private and governmental agencies which include the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DOD), National Science Foundation (NSF) and charitable contributions from private industry.
$69,042,170 spent$5,091,866 earned by the program20% of program spendingNational Jewish Health is the nations' largest nonprofit provider of telephonic and technology-based commercial tobacco cessation services, delivering evidence-based, personalized telephone and online coaching programs in 23 states and a variety of health plans, employer groups and wellness companies. The state grant contract revenue of $17,140,017 is included in Part VIII, line 1e, while the rest of the revenue is reported in section 4c above. Since the development of our Quitline program in 2002, National Jewish Health has assisted more than 2.5 million people with their quit attempts. In FY25, we launched a new mobile application to support My Life, My Quit 2.0, enhancing access and engagement for youth participants seeking cessation support. In tandem, we introduced a refreshed QuitLogix(R) 3.0 platform to strengthen the participant experience, streamline navigation, and expand functionality across all participating states. The Quitline program follows the best practices and industry standards published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC). National Jewish Health's protocols are research- and evidence-based. The…
$14,339,028 spent$332,322 earned by the program4% of program spendingNational Jewish Health provides other programs and services such as professional education for medical professionals, specialized physician and provider services to local hospitals, and expert testing and analytical services to other healthcare providers, non-profits and academic medical centers.
$12,494,897 spent$14,592,657 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $339,288,323.
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 $350M to $454M (+30%).
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 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% · 2024 16% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 S Salem MD
President and CEO, BOD Member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 173 funders to 232 funders, grant income rose $5.9M → $17M.
52 of 595 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.3M from 51 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 595 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
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
54% 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 JEWISH HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 JEWISH HEALTH draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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 JEWISH HEALTH is better cushioned than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $419.1M on record — $406.0M federal, $13.1M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$393.0M
- Department of Defense$9.5M
- National Science Foundation$2.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$641k
- Department of Labor$150k
- Department of Agriculture$56k
- MA$6.8M
- VT$5.8M
- CT$480k
- FL$5k
- NJ$4k
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 JEWISH HEALTH
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- National Jewish Illiquid Asset Holding Company · disregarded
- Njh Sjh Inc · exempt
- MS NJH Administrative Services LLC · exempt
- JH NJH Administrative Services LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: 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 JEWISH HEALTH?
- NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH (Colorado) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,945,706 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($21,597,373). 359 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 595 organizations giving $113,945,706 in grants to NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH, 359 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH?
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,597,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 595 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing