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National Institute for Health Care
Washington, DC · EIN 52-2102558. Reported 122 grants totalling $3,062,431 to 68 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Institute for Health Care, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E058) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 42% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,380 and $32,515; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $65,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $257,498 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $162,667 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $145,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $131,932 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $101,430 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Health Policy | Washington, DC | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism | Columbia, MO | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Conversation US Inc | Waltham, MA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $75,723 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $68,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $64,946 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass Fd Inc for Expanding Healthcare Acces | Boston, MA | $63,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tradeoffs | Philadelphia, PA | $63,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $62,532 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tiny Tower Media LLC | Indianapolis, IN | $62,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $56,952 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $52,424 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital | Cooperstown, NY | $51,645 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $50,547 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity | Austin, TX | $50,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of Eastern Michigan University | Ypsilanti, MI | $47,731 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Virginia University Research Corporation | Morgantown, WV | $46,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pop Health LLC | Fairfax, VA | $45,370 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $45,222 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gerontological Society of America | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Indian Country Media LLC | Grand Repids, MI | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Study Center Inc | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science Univeristy | Portland, OR | $44,215 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Science Friday Initiative Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $38,637 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $37,168 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $35,697 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $34,942 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Shrewsbury, MA | $32,488 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | Galveston, TX | $32,073 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $30,529 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Nonprofit News | Beverly Hills, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $29,721 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $29,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Globe Life Sciences Media LLC | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $24,424 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $23,772 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $20,493 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boston Globe Media Partners LLC | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Health Affairs | Bethesda, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medpage Totay Everyday Health | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | Saint Paul, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society for Science and the Public | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Carter Center Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $18,758 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Milwalkee Sentinel Journal | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Outlier Media | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Center for Michigan Inc | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $12,545 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American University | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Diva Communications Inc | Leonia, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fortune Media | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Frankly Speaking Films | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Univision Interactive Media Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vox Media | Washington, DC | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Health I-Team Inc | Nantucket, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
32 of 68 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
EXEMPT PURPOSE RELATED JOURNALISM GRANT - Presidents & Fellows of Harvard
EXEMPT PURPOSE RELATED RESEARCH GRANTS - Regents University of California Los Angeles
EXEMPT PURPOSE RELATED RESEARCH GRANT - Fortune Media
EXEMPT PURPOSE JOURNALISM GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 68 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $786,645 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $816,497 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 34 | $918,900 | $22,000 |
| 2024 | 22 | $540,389 | $21,977 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
19% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Institute for Health Care's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1225 19TH Street Nw 710, Washington, DC, 20036.
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