Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,890 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ($573,890). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $599k
- Net assets
- $27M
What Washington State Hospital Association does
Mission
Washington State Hospital Association is a member organization comprised of hospitals and other member organizations. The association represents hospitals in legislative and regulatory activities, provides leadership on patient safety and care improvements, and provides educational opportunities, technical services and information related to hospital financing and delivery of healthcare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clinical excellence: washington hospitals have a commitment to pursuing excellence for safe, high-quality, cost-effective health care for the people of washington state. Through wsha's award-winning patient safety program, hospitals cooperate and work together to share best practices and measure improvements in areas as diverse as maternal and infant health, diagnostic excellence, opioid stewardship, and workplace violence. This program helps to ensure the right care is delivered, at the right time, to every patient, every time. In the last several years, our patient safety work resulted in tens of thousands of prevented patient harms and hundreds of millions of dollars saved. The program is uniquely positioned to work with all wsha members, from multi-state systems to critical access hospitals. We work with each hospital to support peer-to-peer sharing, data analysis and access to national experts.
Government affairs: the association supports and participates in efforts to persuade washington state and federal officials to support legislation and health policy benefiting washington's hospitals, the state health care system, and the community.
Data analytics: the association employs a team of analysts that work to build knowledge based on quality, utilization, and financial information. This knowledge supports the association's patient safety and government affairs work and helps tackle the challenges that face health care providers and systems in washington state.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2023 to 2024, from $39M to $33M (−13%).
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 45% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cassie Sauer
President & CEO
Board chair
Ketul Patel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $83k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Swedish Health Services). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION’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
WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 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
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 WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
“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
96% of WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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.
Government funding WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$18.1M
- Department of Defense$63k
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 WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Hospitals for Healthy Future Politcial Action Committee · exempt
- Washington Hospital Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: 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 WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION?
- WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,890 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ($573,890). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $598,890 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION?
- WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $573,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), 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