Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare
UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $896,327 to it, the largest being WESTMORELAND DRUG & ALCOHOL COMMISSION ($546,327). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $896k
- Net assets
- $-1931585
What UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare does
Mission
Upmc center for high-value health care ein: 45-2178782 fiscal year ending june 30, 2025 form 990, part iii, statement of program service accomplishments upmc center for high-value health care (the center) was formed on may 4, 2011, as a pennsylvania non-stock, nonprofit membership corporation. The center's sole member is upmc, an organization that is recognized as exempt from federal income tax under section 501(a) as an organization described in section 501(c)(3) and as a supporting organization described in section 509(a)(3). Upmc is the parent organization of a large academic medical center system based in pittsburgh, pennsylvania with health care facilities and operations located in the united states and around the world. As stated in its articles of incorporation, the center is organized exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3). The center's mission is to advance us health care policy and practice through the development and dissemination of innovative service delivery and payment models that support value-driven health care. The center aims to improve outcomes by facilitating more coordinated care,…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$7,216,030 spent$6,703,149 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,216,030.
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 $576k to $2.0M (+243%).
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 86% · 2018 63% · 2019 89% · 2020 88% · 2021 78% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 8% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Robert Edwards Md J 10125
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $212k → $56k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $347k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Pittsburgh). These are real filings, and they are not money UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare raised.
From the IRS filings of UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare’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
UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
61% 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 UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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
61% of UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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
UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.6M
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 UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 159 related entities
- Upmc Senior Communities Inc · exempt
- Pittsburgh Lifetime Care Community · exempt
- Canterbury Place · exempt
- Seneca Place · exempt
- Shadyside Hospital Supporting Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare: 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 UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare?
- UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $896,327 to it, the largest being WESTMORELAND DRUG & ALCOHOL COMMISSION ($546,327). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $896,327 in grants to UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare?
- WESTMORELAND DRUG & ALCOHOL COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $546,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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