More About KFF

Who We Are

A leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication, KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) is dedicated to filling the need for trusted information on national health issues. KFF is a nonprofit organization focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.

KFF develops and runs its own research, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other nonprofit research organizations or major media companies. We serve as a nonpartisan source of facts, information, analysis, polling, and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge — from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to in-depth health policy news coverage provided by our news service, KHN, to information young people can use to avoid HIV or elderly people can use to understand their Medicare benefits.

KFF is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.  We operate primarily with resources we earn from managing our own endowment, supplemented by funds we receive from foundations and other partners. Learn more about our financials and external funds.

What We Do

1. We are a major producer of policy analysis and research ourselves. We serve as a trusted and independent expert voice and source of information in a U.S. health system dominated by commercial, political, and ideological interests; a place where people can turn for unbiased and nonpartisan analysis, basic facts, and explanation of the biggest domestic and global health policy issues and public opinion shaping them. The hallmark of everything we do at KFF, in every program, is our focus on people.
2. We are a “go to” clearinghouse of all the best health policy news and information for our audiences.
3. We are a producer of in-depth journalism through Kaiser Health News (KHN).  KHN, our nonprofit, editorially-independent news service, is committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. Our mission, through KHN, is to provide the highest quality coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels and in the marketplace and how they affect people.
4. We develop and help run large-scale, public health information campaigns in the U.S. under the campaign umbrella Greater Than AIDS. These reach the groups most at risk of HIV and currently focus on the South.