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Public Health Accreditation Board
Public Health Accreditation Board (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,389,562 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($10,894,931). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Public Health Accreditation Board does
Mission
The mission of PHAB is to advance and transform public health practice by championing performance improvement, strong infrastructure, and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) 93.967: PHAB was one of three national partners awarded funds to provide training and technical assistance, evaluation support of the PHIG program, and facilitates coordination and communication across the 107 recipients and CDC The three strategies of this grant are Workforce, Foundational Capabilities, and Data Modernization. PHAB supports recipients to achieve several key outcomes by the end of the 5-year performance period. Ultimately, this grant will lead to accelerated prevention, preparedness, and response to emerging health threats. Improved outcomes in other public health areas are also anticipated.See Schedule O For Continuation.All work done as part of this grant is grounded in three key principles: 1) Data and evidence drive planning and implementation; 2) Partnerships play a critical role in grant program success. and 3) Resources are directed to support diversity and health equity.
$12,376,658 spent64% of program spendingAccreditation and Recognition Program:The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) is the voluntary national accreditation program for tribal, state, local, and territorial, governmental public health departments. Through the national accreditation program, PHAB works to transform the public health system by (1) setting standards and measures that define excellence in public health department performance, (2) encouraging public health departments to engage in quality improvement, (3) expanding the evidence base of public health practice, and ultimately (4) improving the population's health. See Schedule O For Continuation.The Accreditation program includes programmatic modules that have their own standards and measures for Vital Records/Health Statistics Units (VRHS), and US Army Public Health installations. These are both part of the Accreditation Program and follow the same workflow. PHAB launched two new products in July 2023. The first was Readiness Assessment and Training, a pre-requisite to all other recognition and accreditation programs that helps health department assess if they are ready to move forward. The second product is a recognition program called Pathways to…
$5,785,443 spent$3,582,675 earned by the program30% of program spendingStrengthening the Nation's Public Health Systems through a National Voluntary Accreditation Program for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Health Departments 93.097Support the operations and continuous improvement of the PHAB accreditation program for state, Tribal, local and territorial health departments as well as to develop and continuously improve accreditation standards, programs, and products for programmatic or focused areas of public health services. The funding provided supports five strategic activities as outlined here. See Schedule O For Continuation.Strategy 1: Promote, communicate, and provide education regarding the accreditation program to diverse and relevant audiences. Strategy Two: Evolve, improve and/or develop new products and services and tools to ensure a relevant, current, and smoothly functioning program, as well as to respond to new needs from the field. Strategy Three: Monitor emerging issues, foster innovation, and strengthen strategic partnerships to support and advance accreditation. Strategy Four: Strengthen the evidence base for accreditation and the use of accreditation to advance public health practice. Strategy Five: Develop and continuously…
$907,170 spent5% of program spendingPHAB Center for Innovation: The PHAB Center for Innovation serves as a national initiative guiding health departments in using innovation as a tool to drive change and improve health and equity. The Center for Innovation: a) Drives public health transformation through collaboration, thought leadership, and systems-based learning; b) Collaborates with partners to explore how equity is and should be embedded in public health transformation, including developing strategies to implement innovation processes that intentionally include equitable practices; c) Provides a learning space for health departments' innovations; d) Identifies and fosters innovations in health departments and public health system by: 1) Collecting lessons learned and success stories from grantee programs and learning comm; 2) Developing and sharing resources, tools, education, and expertise to guide health departments in developing or replication innovations in their community; 3) Connecting innovators within public health and across sectors; 4) Monitors, disseminates, and builds the science of public health innovation.
$309,278 spent$234,779 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,378,549.
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 $6.4M to $10M (+57%).
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 24% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 49% · 2024 58% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Public Health Accreditation Board’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Claude Jacob
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.2M.
From the IRS filings of Public Health Accreditation Board’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
Public Health Accreditation Board leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
Public Health Accreditation Board draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 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.
Against its field
Public Health Accreditation Board has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Public Health Accreditation Board receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $122.6M on record — $122.1M federal, $448k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$121.5M
- Department of Defense$689k
- VT$148k
- CT$85k
- MA$79k
- DE$60k
- OR$57k
- OK$20k
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 Public Health Accreditation Board
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Public Health Accreditation Board: 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 Public Health Accreditation Board?
- Public Health Accreditation Board (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,389,562 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($10,894,931). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Health Accreditation Board have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,389,562 in grants to Public Health Accreditation Board, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Health Accreditation Board?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,894,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Health Accreditation Board 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.
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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 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