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Health Foundation for Western & Central New York

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
154
Grants FY2024
95
Organizations funded FY2023
48%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
79 to 95
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$160M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Health Foundation for Western & Central New York funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2024still arriving126$4.1M43%
FY202395$3.7M48%
FY202282$4.2M34%
FY202179$3.2M30%
FY202095$6.6M45%
FY201984$2.9Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$9.5MHuman Services$6.3MPhilanthropy$3.2MEducation$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.3MReligion$849kArts & Culture$639kHousing & Shelter$416kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 205 grantees
All grantees of Health Foundation for Western & Central New York by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ardent Solutions Inc$1,016,275524%
Community Connections of Ny Inc$944,13769%
Cayuga County Community Health Network Inc$905,300632%
United Way of Central New York Inc$882,82055%
The New York Academy of Medicine$756,01864%
Child Care Solutions Inc$749,93164%
Community Service Society of New York$680,00031%
Erie-Niagara Area Health Education Center Inc$674,500545%
Healthy Community Alliance Inc$621,78067%
Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc$522,50052%
City Mission Society Inc$438,00042%
Southern Tier Health Care System Inc$433,000519%
Interfaith Works of Central New York$405,85256%
New York Statewide Senior Action Council Inc$402,000613%
The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc$393,62062%
Hearts and Hands Inc$382,500554%
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc$341,47532%
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County$337,92651%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$258,11530%
Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy Inc$257,00055%
Education Development Center Inc$255,55050%
Child Development Council of Central New York Inc$252,90037%
Community Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc$250,50032%
Uconnectcare Inc$250,50032%
Cattaraugus Community Action Inc$245,50042%
Belmont Housing Resources for Wny Inc$240,50031%
Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network Inc$227,50044%
March of Dimes Inc$225,50030%
Independent Health Foundation$225,000323%
Grantmakers Forum of New York Inc Dba Ny Funders Alliance Initiatives Fund$223,281222%
Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara$220,50041%
Bestself Behavioral Health Inc$220,00040%
P2 Collaborative of Wny Inc$215,600118%
Healthcare Association of New York State$212,91140%
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association$212,20260%
Cattaraugus County Project Head Start Inc$212,00023%
Snapcap Inc$200,000338%
Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County Inc$196,50033%
New York State Association for Rural Health Inc$196,500410%
Early Childhood Alliance Onondaga Inc$191,00025%
Southern Tier Community Health Center Network Inc$176,00031%
Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative Inc$174,000611%
Integrated Community Alternatives Network Inc$172,11650%
Community Services for Every1 Inc$169,83040%
Center for Elder Law & Justice Inc$167,50032%
Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc$160,00017%
Physicians for a National Health Program Ny Metro Chapter Inc$157,645421%
Read to Succeed Buffalo Inc$150,00048%
The Service Collaborative of Wny$145,00041%
Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment Inc$142,78432%
Seven Valleys Health Coalition Inc$135,50049%
Jericho Road Ministries Inc$135,50030%
Community Action Program for Madison County Inc$134,00032%
Northern Oswego County Health Services Inc$130,00030%
Healthelink Inc$127,14021%
Integrated Community Planning of Oswego County Inc$117,00027%
Inclusive Alliance Ipa Inc$110,000316%
Adelphi University$103,37030%
Grantmakers in Aging Inc$101,00052%
Finger Lakes Community Health Inc$100,00010%
Madison County Rural Health Council Inc$85,000210%
The Children's Agenda Inc$77,00015%
Rebuilding Central New York Inc$76,226220%
Health Workforce Collaborative Inc$75,000264%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$74,98020%
Lakeshore Connections Inc$69,46814%
National Council on Aging Inc$67,00020%
Healthcare Educational and Research Fund Inc$57,32013%
Police Athletic League of Buffalo$56,90032%
D'Youville University$56,44630%
Pinnacle Community Services Inc$52,50021%
Grantmakers in Health$51,59560%
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc$50,00011%
Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency$50,00011%
Abc Cayuga Inc$50,00026%
Providence Farm Collective Corp$50,00013%
Buffalo Urban League Inc$50,00010%
Elmcrest Children's Center Inc$44,00010%
Solutions Journalism Network Inc$42,12520%
Citizens Budget Commission Inc$40,00012%
Resource Center for Independent Living Inc$40,00010%
United Way Services Corporation$40,00013%
Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc$33,75011%
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism$30,00031%
Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc$30,00030%
Blood Cancer United Inc$30,00030%
Love Living at Home Inc$29,61546%
Chautauqua County Health Network Inc$26,60021%
Harvest House Buffalo Inc$25,00012%
United Hospital Fund of New York$25,00010%
Accord Corporation$25,00020%
Epic - Every Person Influences Children Inc$24,99521%
Cooperative Extension Association in the State of N Y$24,7042n/a
United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc$24,0001n/a
Syracuse Community Health Center Inc$23,75010%
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc$21,75021%
Westcott Community Center Inc$21,25021%
Holy Cross Head Start Inc$21,03550%
The Chautauqua Center Inc$20,00020%
CoNECTINC$20,00022%
Calming Nature Doula Center Inc$20,0001n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Jamestown$20,00030%
Genesee Livingston Orleans Wyoming Out Inc$18,7501n/a
East Buffalo Development Corporation$18,75017%
Metro Community Development Corporation$18,75014%
Syracuse Grows Inc$18,42513%
Eastern Niagara Hospital Inc$18,20040%
Feed Buffalo Inc$17,50022%
Compeer West Inc$17,21030%
Centerstate Ceo Foundation Inc$17,00024%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$17,00020%
American Society on Aging$16,00010%
Home Headquarters Inc$16,00030%
People's Equal Action and Community Effort Inc$15,50020%
Young Mens Christian Association of Olean Ny and Bradford Pa$15,50020%
Most Valuable Parents of Buffalo Inc$15,50024%
The Sunset Home of Utica$15,00021%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$15,00010%
Ecmc Foundation Inc$15,00020%
United Way for Cortland County Inc$14,00013%
Madison County$13,6753n/a
Philanthropy New York Inc$12,96020%
Mercy Hospital Foundation$12,50011%
Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation$12,50011%
South Buffalo Community Association$12,20022%
Family Help Center Inc$11,00010%
Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc$10,50011%
Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Collective Inc$10,50023%
Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc$10,50013%
Mount St Mary's Hospital of Niagara Falls$10,00010%
Auburn Community Hospital$10,00010%
The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation$10,00010%
Reach Cny Inc$10,00011%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$10,00010%
Daemen University$10,00010%
Lutheran Social Services of Upstate New York Inc$10,0001n/a
Upmc Chautauqua at Wca$10,00010%
Long Term Care Community Coalition$10,00011%
Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca$10,00010%
Burchfield Penney Art Center$10,0002n/a
Tully Free Library$10,00021%
Social Current Inc$10,00010%
Bertrand Chaffee Hospital$10,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny$10,00010%
Central Current Inc$10,00021%
Lake Plains Community Care Network Inc$9,99911%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$9,87050%
Geneseo Parish Outreach Center Inc$9,50025%
Bishop's Commons Inc$9,50010%
Catholic Charities of Buffalo$8,50010%
Homeless Alliance of Western New York Inc$8,50011%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$8,00040%
Buffalo Niagara Lgbtq History Project Inc$7,5001n/a
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc$7,50010%
West Side Community Services Inc$7,50011%
Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo$7,50010%
The Rural Outreach Center Inc$7,30020%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$7,00010%
Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service Inc$7,00020%
Back to Basics Outreach Ministries$6,00020%
The Osborne Association Inc$5,50010%
Manlius Senior Centre Inc$5,50014%
Capital Impact Partners$5,00010%
Enchanted Mountains Village Inc$5,0001n/a
VOICE Buffalo Inc$5,00012%
Le Moyne College$5,00010%
Valley Health Services Inc$5,00010%
Family Promise of Western New York$5,00010%
Rebuilding the Village$5,00015%
Thea Bowman House Inc$5,00010%
Medicare Rights Center Inc$5,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
Empower Parkinson Inc$5,00011%
Madonna of the Streets Inc$5,00010%
P E a C E Inc$5,00019%
Village Birth International$5,0001n/a
Crouse Health Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Joseph's House for Women Inc$5,00010%
Maureen's Hope Foundationinc$5,00013%
Kenan Center Inc$5,00010%
The Postpartum Resource Center of Ny Inc$4,78513%
Via Visually Impaired Advancement$4,50020%
Finger Lakes Ipa Inc$4,30010%
Hamilton Senior Citizens Inc$4,2001n/a
Western New York Public Health Alliance Inc$4,0001n/a
Orleans Community Health Foundation Inc$4,00013%
Senior Citizens Council of Rome Ny Inc$4,00011%
Black Womens Wellness Village of Buffalo Inc$3,5001n/a
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$2,50010%
Comfort House of Allegany County Inc$2,50011%
West Buffalo Charter School$2,50010%
Allegany County Mental Health Association$2,50014%
Ovarian Cancer Project Inc$2,50011%
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc$2,50010%
Buffalo House of Hope Inc$2,50013%
Community Connections At Findley Lake Inc$2,30011%
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Canopy of Neighbors Inc$2,00021%
Young Women's Christian Association of Syracuse and Onondaga County$1,70010%
Chautauqua County Office for the Aging$1,7001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse$1,00010%
Buffalo String Works Inc$1,00010%
Partners in Community Development$1,00010%
Friends of Night People Inc$1,00010%
Dunbar Association Inc$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Health Foundation for Western & Central New York supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 191 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArdent Solutions Inc: $1,016,275 over 5y, 24% of budgetCommunity Connections of Ny Inc: $944,137 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetCayuga County Community Health Network Inc: $905,300 over 6y, 32% of budgetUnited Way of Central New York Inc: $882,820 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetThe New York Academy of Medicine: $756,018 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetChild Care Solutions Inc: $749,931 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCommunity Service Society of New York: $680,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetErie-Niagara Area Health Education Center Inc: $674,500 over 5y, 45% of budgetHealthy Community Alliance Inc: $621,780 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetLifespan of Greater Rochester Inc: $522,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCity Mission Society Inc: $438,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSouthern Tier Health Care System Inc: $433,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetInterfaith Works of Central New York: $405,852 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNew York Statewide Senior Action Council Inc: $402,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc: $393,620 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHearts and Hands Inc: $382,500 over 5y, 54% of budgetSay Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc: $341,475 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of Buffalo and Erie County: $337,926 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $258,115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy Inc: $257,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetEducation Development Center Inc: $255,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChild Development Council of Central New York Inc: $252,900 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCommunity Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc: $250,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUconnectcare Inc: $250,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCattaraugus Community Action Inc: $245,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBelmont Housing Resources for Wny Inc: $240,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBuffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network Inc: $227,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $225,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndependent Health Foundation: $225,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGrantmakers Forum of New York Inc Dba Ny Funders Alliance Initiatives Fund: $223,281 over 2y, 22% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara: $220,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBestself Behavioral Health Inc: $220,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetP2 Collaborative of Wny Inc: $215,600 over 1y, 18% of budgetHealthcare Association of New York State: $212,911 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWestern New York Public Broadcasting Association: $212,202 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCattaraugus County Project Head Start Inc: $212,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSnapcap Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County Inc: $196,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNew York State Association for Rural Health Inc: $196,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetEarly Childhood Alliance Onondaga Inc: $191,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSouthern Tier Community Health Center Network Inc: $176,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWestern New York Integrated Care Collaborative Inc: $174,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetIntegrated Community Alternatives Network Inc: $172,116 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Services for Every1 Inc: $169,830 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Elder Law & Justice Inc: $167,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBuffalo Center For Health EquityInc: $160,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPhysicians for a National Health Program Ny Metro Chapter Inc: $157,645 over 4y, 21% of budgetRead to Succeed Buffalo Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 7.6% 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 191.

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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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY106.8× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Cullen 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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About Health Foundation for Western & Central New York

How much does Health Foundation for Western & Central New York give?
Health Foundation for Western & Central New York reported 154 grants totaling $4,141,751 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 95 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Health Foundation for Western & Central New York fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (37%), Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Health Foundation for Western & Central New York's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ardent Solutions Inc ($1.0M), Community Connections of Ny Inc ($944k), Cayuga County Community Health Network Inc ($905k).
Does Health Foundation for Western & Central New York fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Health Foundation for Western & Central New York accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Health Foundation for Western & Central New York?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.
Where is Health Foundation for Western & Central New York based?
Health Foundation for Western & Central New York is based in NY.

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 288 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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