Health Commons Project

What Health Commons Project does

Health Commons Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, that builds coordinated community health networks — branded Community Care Hubs — for Washington State cities, schools, hospitals, fire departments, and community-based organizations. Its core methodology is SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), which the organization deploys through three service lines: Community Care Hubs (Care Design + Development, Learning Networks, and Measurement and Evaluation), Provider IT Tools (a HIPAA/FERPA-compliant Care Coordination App for referrals and progress tracking, Insurance Eligibility Lookups integrated via OneHealthPort, and City Health Data Dashboards for performance measurement), and Braided Funding advisory services that combine multiple public and private funding sources.

The technology backbone is a cloud-based care coordination and health data management platform with documented HIPAA and FERPA compliance, secure portal integration through OneHealthPort (in-house since the November 2024 acquisition of One Health Port), and dashboards designed to inform local resource investment decisions. The Student Health Hub, a featured implementation serving City of Renton school counselors and youth behavioral health providers, demonstrates the operating model end-to-end. The Leadership team consists of Rob Arnold (Executive Director) and Maura Little (Director of External Affairs).

The business model is grant- and public-funding-driven rather than transaction-priced. The organization secures multi-source braided funding — including through its partnership with the WA Impact Fund — to cover network expenses and finance growth, offers technical assistance and training directly to Washington State municipalities and provider networks, and runs recurring virtual Learning Network events as both a community engagement and provider acquisition channel. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; there are no fee-based product SKUs, and revenue is dependent on continued grant capture and public-sector partnerships concentrated in a single state.

Name

Health Commons Project

Legal name

Health Commons Project

Website

https://healthcommonsproject.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Health Commons Project is a Washington State 501c3 non-profit that builds coordinated community health networks — Community Care Hubs — for cities, schools, hospitals, and providers using SBIRT methodology, supported by HIPAA/FERPA-compliant care coordination software and braided grant funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health Networks

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Health & Health Equity/Social Determinants Units (HLAJAAAO), Health Promotion, Prevention & Community Health Programs (BPAIAJAC), Community Health, Prevention & Health Education (BPAGACAC)

Keywords

• Community health networks
• Care coordination software
• Behavioral health services
• SBIRT implementation
• Nonprofit health services

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant and Public Funding: As a 501c3 nonprofit, Health Commons Project secures funding from multiple public and private sources to support network expenses and finance growth. They specialize in braided funding strategies combining multiple funding sources to support unified service delivery.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Health Commons Project builds and operates coordinated community health networks for Washington State cities, supplying Community Care Hubs (Care Design + Development, Learning Networks, Measurement and Evaluation), Provider IT Tools (Care Coordination App, Insurance Eligibility Lookups, City Health Data Dashboards), and Braided Funding strategy services. Offerings are grounded in the SBIRT methodology and centered on a HIPAA/FERPA-compliant technology stack that enables secure cross-system referrals, eligibility verification, and outcome measurement across schools, hospitals, fire departments, and community organizations.

Product overview

Health Commons Project offers a suite of coordinated health network services for Washington State communities, centered on three main offerings: Community Care Hubs (which include Care Design + Development, Learning Networks, and Measurement and Evaluation components), Provider IT Tools (comprising the Care Coordination App, Insurance Eligibility Lookups, and City Health Data Dashboards), and Braided Funding services. The Provider IT Tools form the technology backbone, enabling providers to manage referrals, verify insurance eligibility, and access performance dashboards. The Student Health Hub is a featured implementation of this infrastructure serving Renton schools. SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) is the underlying methodology applied across all services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Student Health Hub: A health network for improving youth behavioral health outcomes, providing school counselors and youth behavioral health providers with a better, faster, and cheaper way to coordinate services for Renton students.

Products and services

• Community Care Hubs Service model that provides local providers with centralized training, IT tools, and funding to deliver comprehensive and coordinated care to individuals within a community. Includes Care Design + Development, Learning Networks, and Measurement and Evaluation components, and is built on the SBIRT methodology. Targeted at Washington State cities, municipalities, schools, hospitals, fire departments, and community-based organizations.
• Provider IT Tools Digital care coordination and management toolkit for local healthcare and social service providers participating in Health Commons Project networks. Bundles a HIPAA- and FERPA-compliant Care Coordination App for referrals and progress tracking, Insurance Eligibility Lookups via OneHealthPort Subscriber ID, and City Health Data Dashboards for performance measurement and resource investment decisions.
• Braided Funding Financial strategy service that combines multiple funding sources to support a unified set of services, enabling networks of partners to co-invest resources toward shared community health goals. Provided in partnership with the Impact Fund. Targeted at Washington State community health networks that need to finance network expenses and future growth.
• Student Health Hub Featured health network built on Health Commons Project infrastructure, providing school counselors and youth behavioral health providers in the Renton area with coordinated service delivery tools for youth behavioral health. Delivers better, faster, and cheaper coordination of services for Renton students and serves as the flagship reference implementation for the SBIRT Community Care Hub model.

Quantifiable outcome

• Renton Student Health Hub provides better, faster, and cheaper coordination of services for students

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Student Health HubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStudent Health Hub is a featured partner network providing school counselors and youth behavioral health providers with coordinated services. Health Commons Project supports this initiative with technology tools and network coordination. The relationship involves joint development of care coordination workflows and shared outcomes measurement through City Health Data Dashboards.
• OneHealthPortsupportingTechnology or IntegrationOneHealthPort provides the secure portal infrastructure enabling Insurance Eligibility Lookups for participating healthcare sites. Their Subscriber ID system allows providers to access eligibility information, benefits, pre-authorizations, and claim status.
• Partnership to Align Social CaresupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as a resource partner for Community Care Hub models and best practices. Health Commons Project aligns its health network approach with the Partnership's frameworks for delivering comprehensive coordinated care.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Unite Us: Unite Us operates a national care coordination and social determinants network connecting healthcare and social service providers. Directly comparable to Health Commons Project's coordinated network model, but operates nationally with venture-backed scale.
• findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha): findhelp runs a social care network connecting people to community resources and enabling closed-loop referrals across the U.S. Overlaps directly with Health Commons Project's referral coordination and community resource matching capabilities.
• NowPow (acquired by Unite Us): NowPow provided a community resource directory and referral platform before being acquired by Unite Us. Closely comparable to Health Commons Project's care coordination and social service matching tools.

Broad incumbents

• Healthify (WellSky Social Determinants): Originally Healthify, now part of WellSky, offering social care coordination and referral management integrated into a broader health and community care platform. Comparable to Health Commons Project's care coordination app, with broader enterprise healthcare IT scale.
• Collective Medical (PointClickCare): Collective Medical, now part of PointClickCare, provides real-time care coordination notifications across health systems. Comparable to Health Commons Project's cross-organization information sharing, but at health-system scale.
• Cedar Gate Technologies: Cedar Gate provides value-based care and population health analytics platforms used by payers and providers. Comparable to Health Commons Project's data dashboard and outcome measurement components, but at enterprise payer scale.

Others

• Partnership to Align Social Care: National collaborative advancing the Community Care Hub model that Health Commons Project explicitly cites as a framework reference. An ecosystem/standards body rather than a competitor, but a key peer in the same conceptual category.

Emerging players

• SpectraMedix: SpectraMedix offers population health and care coordination analytics for Medicaid and behavioral health populations. Overlaps with Health Commons Project's SBIRT and measurement/evaluation offerings.
• Pyx Health: Pyx Health delivers tech-enabled social health and behavioral health support to Medicaid and dual-eligible populations. Compares to Health Commons Project's youth behavioral health coordination focus via a more consumer-facing engagement model.

Regional players

• 2-1-1 San Diego / 2-1-1 Washington: 2-1-1 information and referral networks provide community-wide social service directories and referral hotlines. Operate in overlapping geographies with Health Commons Project and address similar access-to-care problems at regional scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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