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United Health Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of United Health Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 46 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year United Health Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $36M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k19 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+16 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEVITY | $25,730,064 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $835,358 |
| CANKDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $738,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $730,096 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LV FOUNDATION | $602,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS | $500,000 |
| CLIMB | $500,000 |
| ROCHESTER PRIMARY CARE NTWKPROF FEES | $488,969 |
| VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $459,635 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $386,736 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $383,336 |
| CIRCLE THE CITY | $375,000 |
| THE GOVERNORS PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP | $361,609 |
| CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE | $287,750 |
| NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC | $259,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $13.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 50% of United Health 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2018, 50 since wound down; 119 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M 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
- NHNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS COUNCIL4× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +342%
- ANAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +104%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +198%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL WYANDOTTEone grant, 2017 · $649k
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $567k
- CPCOLUMBUS PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $562k
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rx Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
175 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. 175 of the 239 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FDN ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLE DEL SOL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HISPANIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for the Uninsured ↗
- Who funds INDIAN HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Health Care Center For The Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Harris-Stowe Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION 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: Direct Relief · American Cancer Society Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Travelers Foundation · Carequest Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Dignity Health · Americares Foundation Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
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 United Health 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.
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc — 44% of income from government
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando 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.