· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 50% of United Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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