· Private foundation
Health Foundation for Western & Central New York
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k74 grants · $332k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $963k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $829k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERIE NIAGARA AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC | $300,000 |
| CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS | $268,981 |
| CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC | $260,000 |
| ARDENT SOLUTIONS | $186,000 |
| BUFFALO CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY | $160,000 |
| ARDENT SOLUTIONS | $150,000 |
| NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL HEALTH INC | $150,000 |
| GRANTMAKERS FORUM OF NY INC DBA NY FUNDERS ALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND | $128,281 |
| ARDENT SOLUTIONS | $126,191 |
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| INTEGRATED COMMUNITY PLANNING OF OSWEGO COUNTY INC | $100,000 |
| FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH | $100,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE ONONDAGA INC | $75,000 |
| JOHN SNOW INC | $60,000 |
| HEALTHCARE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH FUND INC | $57,320 |
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 (FY19–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Health Foundation for Western & Central New York’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 54 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- ASARDENT SOLUTIONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +73%
- CCCAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $905k · revenue +117% · 32% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC5× · 2019–2023 · $883k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- PCP2 COLLABORATIVE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC DBA POPULATION HEALTH COLLABORATIone grant, 2021 · $261k
- PCP2 COLLABORATIVE OF WNY INCone grant, 2022 · $216k · revenue -91%
- TCTPI CO BOSTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $109k
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.
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
We welcome all western new yorkers for high quality, patient-centered primary healthcare.
Healthcare choices ny, inc., a federally qualified health center licensed by the state of new york is an outpatient health center providing community based health services primarily to persons who may have a mental health diagnosis or be…
Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…
The objective and mission of the corporation shall be to ensure the availability of funding to support the development, expansion and delivery of the highest quality effective and efficient primary care services, coupled with additional…
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.
For the regions we serve. nascentia community care's goal of maintaining, restoring and promoting the health and independence of those we serve is achieved by utilizing our agency and community resources, by working collaboratively, and by…
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is P E a C E Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
205 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 205 of the 288 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ARDENT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ERIE-NIAGARA AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATEWIDE SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UCONNECTCARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC ↗
- Who funds CATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS FORUM OF NEW YORK INC DBA NY FUNDERS ALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds P2 COLLABORATIVE OF WNY 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: 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
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 Foundation for Western & Central New York 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.
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.