· Public charity
American Public Health Association
To provide optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $4,555,459 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,724,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,169,233 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,112,981 |
| SMART SURFACES | $616,506 |
| METROPOLITAN AME CHURCH | $454,915 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTER FOR DISEASE PREVENTION | $363,700 |
| NATIONAL FORUM FOR HEART DISEASE & STROKE PREVENTION | $265,258 |
| NAPHSIS-NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS | $190,000 |
| OREGON HLTH SCIENCES UNIV | $150,000 |
| ALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER | $125,000 |
| GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $125,000 |
| COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE | $125,000 |
| TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $125,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $115,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| SMALL &RURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- COCOUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH7× · 2017–2023 · $730k · revenue +58%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +135%
- AIALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $381k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TGThe George Washington Universityone grant, 2024 · $375k · revenue +7%
Trustees of Tufts Collegeone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +12%- CTCRISIS TEXT LINE INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Public Health Association and the most unlike its peers is Mary Black Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 177 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SMART SURFACES COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ↗
- Who funds National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds America Walks Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BRIDGEPORT OIC INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMYHEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAFE STATES ALLIANCE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Recreation and Park Association · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · The Institute for Intergovernmental Research Inc · The Kresge Foundation · AARP · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · National Council on Aging Inc · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc · Public Health Institute · Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Public Health Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems — 100% of income from government
- Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
- The Greater Bridgeport Oic Inc — 53% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- National Center for Healthy Housing Inc — 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Public Health Association — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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