Louisiana · Nonprofit
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,233,139 to it, the largest being The University of Queensland ($14,208,178). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0B
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $3.2B
What Ochsner Clinic Foundation does
Mission
We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Patient care/patient medical services: Ochsner Clinic Foundation consists of six hospitals at eleven campuses and many clinical locations. Served 72,118 inpatients resulting in 344,905 patient days. Emergency room visits totaled 608,545. The number of births totaled 11,671. Outpatient hospital visits totaled 1,606,307. Physician clinic visits total 4,263,864. 386 patients received organ transplants.
$4,501,121,190 spentof which $8,271,730 as grants$5,224,191,008 earned by the program98% of program spendingDivision of academics: since 1944, academics has been an integral component of the mission, visions and strategy of the ochsner organization. The division of academics, encompassing both medical education and research, adds emphasis, intellectual capital, and focus to ochsner's mission to lead, educate, and innovate, with the primary focus of providing the highest quality care and service to the ochsner communities and patients. Our medical education mission is to educate and train a health professional workforce that is prepared to provide safe and efficient care in an evolving healthcare delivery system along with our research mission to enhance, foster, and promote translational, clinical and health services research of the highest quality to improve the clinical care of our patients. The academic areas are operating divisions of ocf. Residency training programs. Ocf operates one of the nation's largest independent academic medical centers and trains over 360 residents and fellows annually in 35 independent ocf-sponsored accredited residency training programs. In addition, ochsner is a joint sponsor with the louisiana state university health science center ("lsuhsc",)…
$50,688,206 spent$11,991,467 earned by the program1% of program spendingMedical research: currently, Ochsner Clinic Foundation operates four basic science research laboratories with nearly 600 active clinical trials in 40 clinical areas. Over 8,000 patients participate in ochsner clinical research annually. Every clinical trial is overseen by the ochsner institutional review board, which provides oversight of the safety of the human subjects participating in clinical trials. Ochsner established the ochsner center for outcomes health research (ocohr), the mission of which is to advance knowledge, improve clinical practice, and the health and well-being of the community. Ocohr is a major collaborator on several grants funded by the patient-centered outcomes research institute and the national institutes of health. The clinical trial unit located on the baptist hospital campus was established in 2012 to provide the ability to carry out a variety of clinical trials, including complex trials requiring close monitoring, high-volume trials and more. From inception, over 5,000 patients have participated in research studies at the ctu. A second clinical trial unit located on the kenner hospital campus was recently opened primarily for vaccine and other high…
$33,183,471 spent$11,465,777 earned by the program1% of program spendingOchsner fitness center: designed to meet the health and fitness goals of its members, ochsner fitness center ("the fitness center") provides fitness services to patients, employees, and other members of the community, including seniors and children. The fitness center serves the community as a valuable resource in the prevention of disease. The fitness center is integrated with ochsner's patient care services through its medical fitness referral program and its physical and occupational therapy services. The fitness center also provides outreach to the community, including educational programs, community nutrition outreach, and a youth obesity program.
$13,420,126 spent$17,729,710 earned by the program0% of program spendingRent - physical plant: Ochsner Clinic Foundation rents its physical plant to related 501(c)(3) organizations. The majority of the rental is to brent house corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary and exempt 501(c)(3) organization. Brent house fully reimburses ochsner for expenses related to the hotel.
$3,124,254 spent$3,124,254 earned by the program0% of program spendingProgram related investments: equity income from joint venture providing patient care.
$11,823,600 earned by the program
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,601,537,247.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.5B to $5.2B (+50%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Andrew B Wisdom
Community director, board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $17M.
23 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $79M from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christus Health Central Louisiana). These are real filings, and they are not money OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
58% 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 OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 21% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 25% · 2022 45% · 2023 48% — 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
48% of OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
67% of OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record — $8.2M federal, $471 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.7M
- Department of Commerce$1.5M
- Department of Justice$30k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $471
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 OCHSNER CLINIC 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 100 related entities
- 1201 Dickory LLC · disregarded
- 1500 Kings Hwy - Three Lots LLC · disregarded
- Chabert Operational Management Company LLC · disregarded
- Clinical Operational Management Company LLC · disregarded
- Connected Health LLC (Beg 022024) · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION?
- OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,233,139 to it, the largest being The University of Queensland ($14,208,178). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $54,233,139 in grants to OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION?
- The University of Queensland is the largest funder on record, with $14,208,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 135 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