Pennsylvania · Public charity
Foundation for Health Equity
FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH EQUITY supports communities of nw philadelphia by building on the assets of organizations that work to address systemic health inequities in order to build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods.
- $649k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $635k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Foundation for Health Equity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $635k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $329k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $383k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $343k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $562k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $349k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $374k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $403k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center in the Park | $445,558 | 9 | 5% |
| Share Food Program | $281,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gwynedd Mercy University | $280,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vna - Community Services Inc | $260,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Maternity Care Coalition | $216,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Children's Alliance | $214,928 | 9 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance | $186,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwest Mutual Aid Collective Inc | $164,250 | 4 | 29% |
| Weavers Way Community Programs | $160,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Face to Face Inc | $116,428 | 5 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for Health Equity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Foundation for Health Equity
- How much does Foundation for Health Equity give?
- Foundation for Health Equity reported 13 itemized grants totaling $635,000, out of $648,807 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for Health Equity fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (31%), Health (22%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are Foundation for Health Equity's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center in the Park ($446k), Share Food Program ($281k), Gwynedd Mercy University ($280k).
- Does Foundation for Health Equity fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Health Equity?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw, W W Smith Charitable Trust.
- Where is Foundation for Health Equity based?
- Foundation for Health Equity is based in PA.
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