California · Nonprofit
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,244,730 to it, the largest being CALHFA HOMEOWNER RELIEF CORPORATION ($5,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Sierra Health Foundation does
Programs
Improving health and quality of life - this broad program category focuses on improving health equity and reducing health disparities to promote health and well-being for all. This is accomplished in a variety of ways, including the development of collaborative community coalitions, learning institutes, and the evaluation and dissemination of knowledge. Programs also focus on mental health awareness and respite, reducing the disproportionate causes of death among african american children, support for community coalitions working to improve health and workplace wellness.
$5,810,485 spentPublic policy and education program - this program category promotes better-informed policy discourse with a focus on health equity, and captures and disseminates lessons learned from grantees. Staff achieves program objectives through partnerships, research, public education and grant making.programs within this category also focus on health and racial equity, and work to build momentum and public awareness to address the systemic barriers that limit access to opportunity for underserved populations.
$2,722,024 spentNonprofit health sector development - programs in this category support leadership development and capacity building to create a more vibrant and diverse nonprofit sector. Specifically, programs support capacity building and leadership development activities for current and emerging nonprofit and public leaders, and nonprofit organizations led by people of color. The foundation also helps nonprofit organizations and public agencies achieve their objectives by providing a venue for education and training, nonpartisan debate and collaboration.
$668,152 spentResponsive grants program - this program supports community-driven efforts to improve health, promote access and reduce health inequity throughout the foundation's 26-county funding region.the 2024 responsive grants program prioritizes projects that are experiencing funding gaps due to statebudget cuts that impact health and quality of life for californians.
$560,435 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $61M to $55M (−11%).
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
Chet P Hewitt
President & CEO
Board chair
Nancy P Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $133k → $376k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management). These are real filings, and they are not money SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SIERRA HEALTH 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
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 63% — 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
0% of SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 16% 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
99% of SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $794k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SIERRA HEALTH 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIERRA HEALTH 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 SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,244,730 to it, the largest being CALHFA HOMEOWNER RELIEF CORPORATION ($5,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $7,244,730 in grants to SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- CALHFA HOMEOWNER RELIEF CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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