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Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$693k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,801
Largest grant, FY2024
$636,704
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$693k75%
FY20231$5k0%
FY20225$26k0%
FY202114$84k21%
FY202017$117kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$667kArts & Culture$189kYouth Development$20kReligion$12kEnvironment$10kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emma Willard School$636,70412%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$30,00020%
Irish Classical Theater Co$20,00041%
716 Squash Inc$20,00023%
Medaille University$10,00010%
Citrs Inc$10,00022%
City Year Inc$10,00020%
Hits Foundation Inc$10,000210%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$10,00020%
Ujima Company Incorporated$7,50021%
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All grantees of Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emma Willard School$636,70412%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$30,00020%
Irish Classical Theater Co$20,00041%
716 Squash Inc$20,00023%
Medaille University$10,00010%
Citrs Inc$10,00022%
City Year Inc$10,00020%
Hits Foundation Inc$10,000210%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$10,00020%
Ujima Company Incorporated$7,50021%
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County$6,00030%
Asolo Theatre Inc$5,00010%
Road Less Traveled Productions Ltd$3,00011%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,50010%
Mulroy Family Foundation$72610%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmma Willard School: $636,704 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIrish Classical Theater Co: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget716 Squash Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMedaille University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitrs Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCity Year Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHits Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBuffalo & Erie County Historical Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUjima Company Incorporated: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Buffalo and Erie County: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoad Less Traveled Productions Ltd: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMulroy Family Foundation: $726 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mulroy Family FoundationNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mulroy Family Foundation · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation

How much does Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation give?
Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $693,231 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Arts & Culture (20%), Youth Development (2%).
Who are Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Emma Willard School ($637k), Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ($30k), Irish Classical Theater Co ($20k).
Does Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mulroy Family Foundation, Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc.
Where is Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation based?
Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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