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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.

$557k
Granted FY2021
11
Itemized grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$485k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$37,624
Largest grant, FY2021
$140,885
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Health First - America's Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman Services
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
FY202111$485k0%
FY202017$617k6%
FY201921$868k10%
FY201822$911k0%
FY201723$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$3.2MInternational$628kCivil Rights$307kFood & Nutrition$78k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Health First - America's Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region: $600,867 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAlzheimers and Aging Research Center: $576,131 over 5y, 92% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $405,683 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $311,950 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $306,508 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $302,642 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $264,016 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDiabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc: $220,287 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNational Breast Cancer Coalition Fund: $213,408 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetOsteoporosis and Breast Cancer Research Center: $158,305 over 4y, 77% of budgetNational Down Syndrome Society: $156,071 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDiabetes National Research Group: $120,994 over 4y, 48% of budgetArthritis & Chronic Pain Research Institute: $93,471 over 4y, 90% of budgetFood Allergy Research & Education Inc: $77,666 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMelanoma Research Foundation: $75,759 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNational Tuberous Sclerosis Association: $62,148 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation: $41,849 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Inc: $39,324 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Marfan Foundation Inc: $36,015 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChristopher Reeve Foundation: $35,292 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Orbis International Inc: $26,682 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $26,324 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMelanoma Research Alliance Foundation: $13,648 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $8,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrology Care Foundation Inc: $5,845 over 1y, 0.1% 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 25.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Health First - America's Charities?

Find your warmest path to Health First - America's Charities 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 Health First - America's Charities

How much does Health First - America's Charities give?
Health First - America's Charities reported 11 itemized grants totaling $484,710, out of $557,001 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Health First - America's Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (76%), International (15%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are Health First - America's Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region ($601k), Alzheimers and Aging Research Center ($576k), The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc ($406k).
Does Health First - America's Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Health First - America's Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
Where is Health First - America's Charities based?
Health First - America's Charities is based in VA.

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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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