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KFF

U.S. center-left (health policy research; analysis is mostly data-driven)

Owned byOwned by no one. KFF is a private nonprofit, classified by the IRS as a public charity since 2019, and governed by a board of trustees. It is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. It runs KFF Health News as an editorially independent program.
FundingMainly its own endowment, which came from a bequest from Henry J. Kaiser's industrial holdings and is valued at roughly $0.8–1 billion. Reported figures put the endowment at about 70% of funding and outside grants, mostly from foundations, at about 30%. KFF says it takes no federal government or corporate funding.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The foundation was set up in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. For decades it was tied to the Kaiser health enterprises. In 1991 it became fully independent of Kaiser Permanente and other Kaiser entities. It kept an endowment of about $1 billion and shifted its mission to health policy research, polling and communications. Today it runs several programs: policy analysis on Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and global health; the KFF Health Tracking Poll; and KFF Health News, a national newsroom (formerly Kaiser Health News) that publishes reporting and syndicates it to many outlets. Its analyses are widely cited by journalists, lawmakers and both parties as a reference source. It describes itself as nonpartisan and does not endorse candidates, but its health-policy focus and its coverage of coverage losses and cost burdens are often seen as sympathetic to expanded public coverage. In the second Trump term, its polling and explainers have documented public disapproval of the administration's handling of health care costs, Medicaid funding reductions and immigration enforcement near health care settings. It has also covered Republican priorities such as fraud in government programs. I did not find well-documented, specific criticism of its polling methods.

Sources

  1. KFF (health policy organization) – Wikipedia
  2. Making KFF Less Mysterious Again – KFF
  3. About Us – KFF Health News
  4. Who Owns the Kaiser Family Foundation? No One Does – LegalClarity
  5. KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Views on Fraud in Government Health Programs
  6. KFF Health Tracking Poll: Health Care Costs and the Midterms

Profile compiled 2026-10-30; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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