New York · Public charity
Independent Health Foundation
To improve the health and well being of western new york residents through awareness, prevention, wellness, and other education programs focused on community health priorities.
- $92k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $48k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Independent Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $48k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $70k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $56k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $160k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| African Heritage Food Co-Op | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Teachers Desk Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Fostering Greatness Inc | $42,000 | 2 | 52% |
| A Taste of Buffalo Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $19,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network Inc | $5,432 | 1 | 0% |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Niagara Falls Housing Authority | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Buffalo Medical Group | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
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: First Niagara Foundation · The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc · East Hill Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Baird Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Independent Health Foundation
- How much does Independent Health Foundation give?
- Independent Health Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $47,500, out of $92,184 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Independent Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (47%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are Independent Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: African Heritage Food Co-Op ($160k), The Teachers Desk Inc ($50k), Fostering Greatness Inc ($42k).
- Does Independent Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Independent Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Niagara Foundation, The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc, East Hill Foundation.
- Where is Independent Health Foundation based?
- Independent Health Foundation is based in NY.
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