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VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $767,009 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ($707,592). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $767k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation does
Mission
Virginia hospital research & education foundation (dba vhha foundation) strives to improve the health of virginians through collaboration, research and education for virginia's hospitals and health systems. Vhref provides continuing professional education programming to virginia health care leaders and professionals through conferences, seminars and webinars. Vhref also supports research and patient safety and quality programs in virginia's hospitals through the identification of grants and other funding opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vhha foundation administered a number of externally funded grants and awards that supported our mission, many of which were awarded by state agencies in virginia. With generous support from our partners, these funds helped us facilitate collaboratives aimed at improvements in the health care system and in the overall health of virginia's communities.
$5,437,744 spentof which $3,541,160 as grants85% of program spendingVirginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation's patient safety organization (pso) continued to assist virginia hospitals in providing the safest and highest quality of care to their patients. The pso allows for trending and identification of improvement opportunities and avoidance of harm across multiple organizations using both state and national comparative data.
$475,025 spent$543,941 earned by the program7% of program spendingIn fy25, vhha foundation hosted 3 in-person conferences, one focused on healthcare leadership, one focused on emergency preparedness and one focused on behavioral health initiatives. Two virtual conferences were also offered, one focused on improving patient safety and healthcare quality and the other on addressing workforce challenges. A quality safety certificate was also offered and was supported by registration fees, as well as a six sigma program.
$464,874 spent$453,663 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,377,643.
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.
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 $6.4M to $8.8M (+38%).
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: 2021 84% · 2022 77% · 2023 65% · 2024 73% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Cannon
CEO
Board chair
Michael I Elliott
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $519k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 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
VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Government funding VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$969k
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 VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association · exempt
- Virginia Business Coalition on Health · exempt
- Virginia Hospital Association Political Action Committee · exempt
- Virginia Hospital Shared Services Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 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 VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $767,009 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ($707,592). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $767,009 in grants to VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $707,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 5 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