· Private foundation
Healthcare Initiative Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $841k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE (USG) | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE (USG) | $100,000 |
| EVERYMIND (FORMERLY MHA OF MOCO) | $50,000 |
| WUMCO HELP INC | $50,000 |
| PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY FARMSHARE | $40,000 |
| WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION | $35,000 |
| MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC | $35,000 |
| OUR MINDS MATTER | $35,000 |
| JSSA (JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY) | $30,000 |
| IDENTITY INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FARMSHARE | $25,000 |
| THE CAREERCATCHERS INC | $25,000 |
| CARE FOR YOUR HEALTH INC | $23,750 |
| MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC | $23,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Healthcare Initiative Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 64%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
83 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2023 · $581k · revenue +32%
- CFCare for Your Health Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $449k · revenue +21%
- IIIDENTITY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- PCPRIMARY CARE COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $306k
- IIIDENTITY INC (FISCAL SPONSOR)one grant, 2024 · $125k
- MCMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $96k
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.
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.
The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The mission of family and medical counseling service is to employ community based, culturally competent approaches to provide comprehensive services that promote the emotional and physical health of families and individuals regardless of…
To encourage, promote and facilitate broad and inclusive civic participation.
To provide direct services and work with public and private organizations throughout maryland to ensure the most vulnerable residents receive essential guidance for nutrition, health care, education, housing, employment and immigration…
Assist the Montgomery County WIB, in expanding the Public Workforce Development System in the county, through serving and connecting job seekers and businesses.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…
How this is measured
92 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. 92 of the 127 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Care for Your Health Inc ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY CARE COALITION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WUMCO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICANS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Tree House Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County MD Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR MINDS MATTER ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMSHARE ↗
- Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER AND ADULT SERVICES INC DBA ASPIRE COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds MID-COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County Maryland Inc · Mead Family Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Healthcare Initiative Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Healthcare Initiative Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
- Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc: 45% of income from government
- Afrithrive Inc: 41% of income from government
- Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc: 17% of income from government
- Story Tapestries Inc: 16% of income from government
- Community Clinic Inc: 16% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- Everymind Inc: 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families: 2% of income from government
- The Upcounty Hub Inc: 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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