· Private foundation
Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF TEXAS | $950,000 |
| DUKE-MARGOLIS CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY | $508,764 |
| COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET | $320,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC | $300,942 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC | $285,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC | $175,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT | $150,000 |
| UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN | $150,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH POLICY | $126,500 |
| TRADEOFFS INC | $120,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $115,263 |
| ACCOUNTABLE FOR HEALTH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC | $85,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
- NPNATIONAL PACE ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2022 · $400k
- TUT1INTERNATIONAL USA T1Internationalone grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -24%
- NANATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +106%
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.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To accelerate the nation's progress towards safe, efficient, high - quality health care and the improved health status of the american population.
Empower self-care by preserving and expanding choice and availability of consumer healthcare products.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
To convene employers and health industry stakeholders to address the financing, delivery and affordability experience as they relate to health, well-being and workforce strategy issues.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The association represents and advocates for home health agencies, hospices, and home care providers across the united states. it advances high quality, accessible home based care through federal and regulatory advocacy, professional…
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
The american college health association (acha) serves as the principal leadership organization for advancing the health of college students and campus communities through advocacy, education, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of Care Campaign and the most unlike its peers is Bentley University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 35 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TRADEOFFS INC ↗
- Who funds LONG-TERM QUALITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Health Policy ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Accountable for Health Institute ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC ↗
- Who funds T1INTERNATIONAL USA T1International ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING ↗
- Who funds MEDICAID MEDICARE CHIP SERVICES DENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION ON HEALTH CARE ↗
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: Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The Commonwealth Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · The Scan Foundation · AARP · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Peter G Peterson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging · Scan Health Plan
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 Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center Inc 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.
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% 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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