Virginia · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,566 to it, the largest being SAFE STATES ALLIANCE ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Society for Public Health Education Inc does
Mission
The society for public health education (sophe) is a nonprofit association that supports leaders in public health, health education, and promotion to advance healthy and equitable communities across the globe. Sophe members work in health care settings, communities, businesses, organizations, schools, universities, worksites, and in local, state, and federal government agencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Meetings:sophe provides educational opportunities for health education researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students by conducting an annual conference. The 2024 annual conference was held in st. Louis, missouri, which was sophe's 75th annual meeting. Conference content included plenary and concurrent sessions, workshops, roundtables, posters, exhibits, award presentations, and student case study competitions. The conference provided a major source of continuing education credits for certified health education specialists, master certified health education specialists, and professionals certified in public health. Additionally, sophe offered several other professional development opportunities including national health education week webinars with more than 700 attendees. Sophe's partnership with the national commission for health education credentialing (nchec) continues with collaborative webinars to explore careers in health education.
$450,775 spent$303,176 earned by the program56% of program spendingJournals & publications:in 2024, sophe published 16 issues of its three peer reviewed journals, "health promotion practice;" "health education & behavior; and "pedagogy in health promotion: the scholarship of teaching and learning." our journals share cutting-edge research, practice-based tools, and innovative teaching concepts with readers across the world. Sophe continued to publish special focus issues and supplements on important emerging issues in health promotion and education.
$164,995 spentof which $3,000 as grants$126,311 earned by the program20% of program spendingHealth education:sophe continued to build health promotion and health education content for continuing education, available in sophe's center for online resources and education (core). This content is available to members and other professionals at all times for their convenience.sophe continued to disseminate information on national standards for the preparation of school health educators and its work with the council for accreditation of educator preparation (caep). Caep recognizes sophe as a specialized professional association in school health education. In conjunction with the national commission for health education credentialing, sophe continued to disseminate the results of the psychometric study of the national health education specialists practice analysis ii, which enumerates the areas of responsibility, competencies, and sub-competencies for the health education workforce. In 2024, sophe partnered with nchec to begin the third iteration of the health education specialists practice analysis (hespa iii). Sophe joined five other leading health education organizations in the national consensus for school health education, which released the third edition of the national…
$112,340 spentof which $2,450 as grants$72,194 earned by the program14% of program spendingHealth promotion:sophe leads many health promotion initiatives which contribute to the global effort to improve public health outcomes and achieve health equity. These initiatives include programs and professional development opportunities that train students and professionals on the connections between behavioral sciences, health education, health promotion and the environment. Sophe also works with other national organizations, federal agencies, businesses, hospitals, schools, and local communities to address health inequity and to improve the health of communities by reducing chronic disease risks due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, tobacco use and other lifestyle risk factors. Sophe's work includes supporting undergraduate students to pursue a career in public health, increase student health outcomes and instruction.
$77,046 spentof which $40,296 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $805,156.
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 $2.4M to $2.9M (+21%).
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 23% · 2018 5% · 2019 33% · 2020 24% · 2021 48% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
William Datema
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $30k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC’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
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC 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. $531 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
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC: 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 SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC?
- SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,566 to it, the largest being SAFE STATES ALLIANCE ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,566 in grants to SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC?
- SAFE STATES ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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