· Public charity
Independent Health Association Inc
Provides health-related products and services that enable affordable access to quality health care.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $3,138,052 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,219,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,698 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $684k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| BUFFALO RIVERWORKS LLC | $227,078 |
| BUFFALO BILLS LLC | $140,858 |
| LMHF STRIVE TO THRIVE PROGRAM INC | $122,273 |
| ECMC FOUNDATION | $72,665 |
| JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $61,860 |
| LARKIN SQUARE LLC | $59,390 |
| PEOPLE INC | $44,018 |
| GREEN OPTIONS BUFFALO (GOBIKESLOW ROLL) | $40,175 |
| RICH PRODUCTS CORPORATION | $39,302 |
| SHARED MOBILITY | $38,429 |
| INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC | $34,935 |
| NIAGARA FRONTIER AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION (NFADA) | $30,743 |
| SENECA DIABETES FOUNDATION | $27,948 |
| AMHERST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $24,588 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
INDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +12% · 87% of their budget- SMSHARED MOBILITY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×19 · 31% of their budget
- LSLMHF STRIVE TO THRIVE PROGRAM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $708k · revenue +25% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- HIHEALTHELINK INCone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +18%
- CHCatholic Health Systemgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +37%
- FLFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -50%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kaleida Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 76 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
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 INDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARED MOBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds LMHF STRIVE TO THRIVE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Green Options Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FRONTIER AUTOMOBILE DEALER ASS'N DEALER SERVICES FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds P2 COLLABORATIVE OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE OF YOUTH COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE WORK SCHOLARSHIP CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds A TASTE OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Wheel B Herd Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BACK TO BASICS OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION 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: First Niagara Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Zemsky Family Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · 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 Independent Health Association Inc 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.
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.