· Private foundation
Put God First Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $851k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lourdes Hospital Foundation | $615,000 |
| ADDICTION CENTER OF BROOME COUNTY | $450,000 |
| Broome County Council of Churches | $400,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BROOME COUNTY | $200,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILY | $160,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $105,000 |
| UHS Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
| MOST HOLY ROSARY CHURCH | $85,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF THE SOUTHERN | $51,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE | $50,000 |
| HOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY | $50,000 |
| Outreach Ministries in the Souther | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,638 |
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 (FY22–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 8% of Put God First Foundation’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, 95% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 89% — 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 +16% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- LHLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +91% · 31% of their budget
- TATHE ADDICTION CENTER OF BROOME COUNTY I4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +22%
- BCBroome County Council of Churches4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
Funded once
- BSBINGHAMTON SERTOMA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -71%
- NHNew Hope Community Churchone grant, 2023 · $5k
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The brooklyn united methodist church home is a not-for-profit organization which has a historic relationship with the united methodist church. the fundamental mission of the home is to perpetuate the healing ministry of christ by promoting…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
To enhance the quality of life for the aged by promoting and providing quality care in a loving environment that supports their social, medical and religious needs while encouraging independence and self-development.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
The mission is to make visible god's love and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor, vulnerable and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home of Wyoming Conference and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 79 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 LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADDICTION CENTER OF BROOME COUNTY I ↗
- Who funds Broome County Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH MINISTRIES IN THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE AND PEACE MISSION TO ORISSA ↗
- Who funds Dotties Kitchen 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: The Tsb Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Broome County Inc · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · Raymond Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jacob & Rose Olum Foundation · 8187770 the Eggleston Foundation Co Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP · The Victor& Esther Rozen Foundation Inc
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 Put God First Foundation 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.