Pennsylvania · Public charity
Partnership for Better Health
The PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH champions and invests in ideas, initiatives, and collaborations that improve the health of the people and communities in our region.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $545,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $108M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Partnership for Better Health funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $2.7M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $2.4M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.3M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $2.2M | 53% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.5M | 46% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.7M | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sadler Health Center Corporation | $4,882,788 | 9 | 10% |
| Substance Abuse Services Inc | $739,969 | 6 | 7% |
| Employment Skills Center | $701,420 | 5 | 43% |
| Nhs Stevens Center | $676,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Carlisle Cares | $586,128 | 8 | 10% |
| Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals | $515,649 | 4 | 0% |
| Shippensburg University Foundation | $441,341 | 7 | 1% |
| New Life Community Church | $349,418 | 5 | n/a |
| Hamilton Health Center Inc | $306,269 | 4 | 1% |
| Project Share of Carlisle | $284,062 | 9 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Partnership for Better Health supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Community Aid Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation · The United Way of the Shippensburg Area
How this is measured
About Partnership for Better Health
- How much does Partnership for Better Health give?
- Partnership for Better Health reported 54 itemized grants totaling $2,719,149, out of $3,039,460 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Partnership for Better Health fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Partnership for Better Health's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sadler Health Center Corporation ($4.9M), Substance Abuse Services Inc ($740k), Employment Skills Center ($701k).
- Does Partnership for Better Health fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Partnership for Better Health?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County.
- Where is Partnership for Better Health based?
- Partnership for Better Health is based in PA.
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