Interact for Health

Interact for Health

Interact for Health formed in 1997 from the sale of ChoiceCare, a local physician-owned HMO, to Humana. The $221 million transaction endowed the foundation, which focuses exclusively on the 20-county Greater Cincinnati region spanning Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Unlike family offices recycling founder wealth, the organization's corpus is the conversion of a nonprofit health plan's value into a permanent charitable vehicle governed by a community board. The foundation deploys capital across program-related investments and traditional grantmaking, targeting mental health and well-being, community power building, and policy and systems change. Its portfolio includes private capital commitments spanning venture capital, growth equity, buyout, and special situations strategies. Interact for Health maintains an on-balance-sheet presence in direct commercial real estate through its headquarters at Kenwood Commons. Co-investment partners in regional initiatives include the Greater Cincinnati Foundation and bi3, specifically through the Funders Response to the Heroin Epidemic and the Data for Equity Funding Collaborative. With an estimated $244 million in assets (Altss estimate), Interact for Health operates from a single office in Cincinnati. The foundation holds active memberships in Grantmakers In Health — where it has participated for over 25 years — Philanthropy Ohio, and the Rotary Club of Cincinnati, embedding its investment and program staff within practitioner networks rather than consultant-led allocator circuits. Its adjacent philanthropic vehicle, InterAct for Change, extends the mission through additional community-focused programming. Interact for Health's structural differentiator is its origin in a nonprofit HMO conversion, a model that ties its fiduciary mandate to regional population health outcomes rather than a founding family's preferences. The board's governance reflects community, not donor, interests, and the foundation's investment strategy — blending traditional endowment management with direct co-investments alongside other local funders — means capital allocation decisions stay tethered to the geography that generated the original asset.