Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION
NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,035 to it, the largest being THE DOCTORS COMPANY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $794k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $0
What National Patient Safety Foundation does
Mission
Npsf partners with patients and families, the health care community, and key stakeholders to advance patient safety and health care workforce safety and disseminate strategies to prevent harm.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The National Patient Safety Foundation (npsf) patient safety congress brings together key health care stakeholders committed to patient safety and is designed to share new learnings, present practical tools and innovative solutions, and arm attendees with the implementation strategies and knowledge they need to foster change. The 2017 congress held in may attracted 1,158 registrations.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $35.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL 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
NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
37% 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 PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Defense$75k
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 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION: 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 PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,035 to it, the largest being THE DOCTORS COMPANY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,035 in grants to NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- THE DOCTORS COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4 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