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Health Forward Foundation Inc at a glance

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Health Forward Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$206kHealth$106kHuman Services$53kPhilanthropy$27kPublic Benefit$16kCivil Rights$15kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$7,149
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$11,500
Individual grant recipient$10,021
UTICA UNIVERSITY$8,665
CHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTER$7,149
VALLEY HEALTH SERVICES INC$6,519
MOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN$4,100
MASONIC CARE COMMUNITY$3,200
HERKIMER COUNTY COMM COLL$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COPPER CITY COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $2k → 16%ELDER LIFE DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $3k → 16%ELDER LIFE DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $3k → 16%ELDER LIFE DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $3k → 16%ELDER LIFE DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $2k → 16%CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY: $3k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 16 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$408k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+13%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SDMG FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $97k · revenue ×20
  • EL
    ELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER
    4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +65%
  • LF
    Little Falls Hospital
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MV
    MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -96%
  • MC
    MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF MOHAWK VALLEY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SP
    SUNY POLYTECH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
Bassett Hospital of Schoharie County

Provision of health care services to residents of schoharie county and the surrounding region.

Health
3
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
United Memorial Medical Center Foundation Inc

To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.

Health
6
Mount Nittany Health System

To provide management and administrative services to all mount nittany health susidiaries.

Health
7
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
8
Springside At Seneca Hill Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc., the sole member of Springside at Seneca Hill, Inc., is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
9
St Camillus Residential Health Care Facility

St. camillus is a residential healthcare facility dedicated to caring for life through a broad range of healthcare services. the organization operates a 284 bed skilled nursing facility which includes a 20 bed unit dedicated to traumatic…

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10
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

—
11
F F Thompson Health System Inc

Thompson Health is dedicated to providing an integrated health care system, comprised of affiliated health-related corporations, to continuously improve the health of the residents and communities of the Finger Lakes and the surrounding…

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12
The Saratoga Hospital

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sdmg Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $54,085 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASONIC CARE COMMUNITY: $34,382 · OtherMASONIC CARE COMMUNITYMOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN: $20,200 · OtherMOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $17,000 · OtherMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMHERKIMER COUNTY COMM COLL: $16,000 · OtherHERKIMER COUNTY COMM COLLMUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF MOHAWK VALLEY: $15,000 · OtherMUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF MOHAWK VALLE…CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXT HERK CTY: $10,375 · OtherSUNY POLYTECH INSTITUTE: $7,500 · Other+9 more: $26,528 · Other+9 moreSDMG FOUNDATION INC: $97,000 · HealthSDMG FOUNDATION INCValley Health Services Inc: $46,661 · HealthValley Health Services IncMASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY: $11,500 · HealthMASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORYCHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC: $11,375 · HealthCHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINCUPSTATE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,000 · Health+2 more: $3,939 · HealthUTICA UNIVERSITY: $83,068 · EducationUTICA UNIVERSITYTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $9,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementUTICA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$201,070Health$177,475Education$83,068Philanthropy$27,000Human Services$16,500Community Improvement$3,000Arts & Culture$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $83,068 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetValley Health Services Inc: $46,661 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC: $11,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Falls Hospital: $3,112 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUTICA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOT FARM INC: $827 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SDMG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Valley Health Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds ELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Falls Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
  • Who funds UTICA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROOT FARM INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Indium Corporation an…The James H Wurz Jr a…Mother Cabrini Health…The Griffin Charitabl…Hazen B Hinman Sr Fou…Joseph and Inez E Car…JM McDonald Foundatio…United Way of the Moh…Utica National Group …Bank of Utica Foundat…Central New York Comm…
The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties IncNY30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Health Forward Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Health Forward Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Health Forward Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Health Forward Foundation Inc 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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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