· Public charity
Health First - America's Charities
To support the activities and purposes of other 501(c)(3) organizations that assist children, families, adults & communities by providing funds distribution services that further their exempt purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $484,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $557,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,291 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $140,885 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC | $60,109 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC | $57,471 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $53,836 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND | $38,267 |
| PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION | $37,624 |
| NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $32,117 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $24,979 |
| ALZHEIMERS AND AGING RESEARCH CENTER | $23,650 |
| NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION INC | $10,189 |
| THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC | $5,583 |
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 (FY19–19, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION5× · 2017–2021 · $601k · revenue +39%- MSMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $312k · revenue +25%
- RFREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $307k · revenue +496%
Funded once
MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +103%- DEDYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +55%
- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +26%
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Please see schedule o
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 15% 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.
26 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.
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 INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS AND AGING RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND ↗
- Who funds OSTEOPOROSIS AND BREAST CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIABETES NATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS & CHRONIC PAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Livestrong Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Health First - America's Charities 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% 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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