· Private foundation
Health Forward Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,021 |
| UTICA UNIVERSITY | $8,665 |
| CHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTER | $7,149 |
| VALLEY HEALTH SERVICES INC | $6,519 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN | $4,100 |
| MASONIC CARE COMMUNITY | $3,200 |
| HERKIMER COUNTY COMM COLL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SFSDMG FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $97k · revenue ×20
- ELELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +65%
- LFLittle Falls Hospital2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- MVMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -96%
- MCMUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF MOHAWK VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SPSUNY POLYTECH INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Provision of health care services to residents of schoharie county and the surrounding region.
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
To provide management and administrative services to all mount nittany health susidiaries.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc., the sole member of Springside at Seneca Hill, Inc., is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
St. camillus is a residential healthcare facility dedicated to caring for life through a broad range of healthcare services. the organization operates a 284 bed skilled nursing facility which includes a 20 bed unit dedicated to traumatic…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Thompson Health is dedicated to providing an integrated health care system, comprised of affiliated health-related corporations, to continuously improve the health of the residents and communities of the Finger Lakes and the surrounding…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sdmg Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 SDMG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Valley Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds CHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds ELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Little Falls Hospital ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
- Who funds UTICA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT FARM 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 Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Central New York Community 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 Health Forward Foundation 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.
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