How much does Put God First Foundation give?

Put God First Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $3,011,338 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 56 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Put God First Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Religion (21%), Food & Nutrition (9%).

Who are Put God First Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Lourdes Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.8M), The Addiction Center of Broome County I ($1.6M), Broome County Council of Churches ($1.1M).

Does Put God First Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Put God First Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Put God First Foundation based?

Put God First Foundation is based in NY.

Put God First Foundation

Put God First Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Put God First Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Put God First Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tsb Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc, Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$615k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$4.8MReligion$2.0MFood & Nutrition$907kHuman Services$809kEducation$614kPhilanthropy$187kInternational$133kPublic Safety & Disaster$79kOther$0

02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $128k
$10k–50k14 grants · $268k
$50k–250k9 grants · $851k
$250k+4 grants · $1.8M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY	$50,000
FAMILY LIFE	$50,000
HOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON	$50,000
Outreach Ministries in the Souther	$40,000
Individual grant recipient	$34,638

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Put God First Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 89%.

Put God First Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.5M · 58 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.5M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+9%

Still filing today

50%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LH
LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +91% · 31% of their budget
TA
THE ADDICTION CENTER OF BROOME COUNTY I
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +22%
BC
Broome County Council of Churches
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +81%

Funded once

BS
BINGHAMTON SERTOMA INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -71%
FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
NH
New Hope Community Church
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

United Way of New York State

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.

Philanthropy

Mercy Medical Center

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.

Health

Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home Inc

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…

Health

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

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.

Health

The Way Back Inc

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…

Human Services

Baptist Home of Brooklyn New York

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.

Health

United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy

Bon Secours Charity Health System Affiliated Group

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…

Health

St Charles Hospital Corp

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.

Health

Rochester General Health System

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home of Wyoming Conference; 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.

05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

28/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$4,645,100Other$2,601,689Human Services$1,498,750Education$518,500Philanthropy$197,000Food & Nutrition$115,000Religion$97,000

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.

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.

The Tsb Foundation IncNY26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Put God First Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Put God First Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home