How do I find funders for a health nonprofit in New York?

Start with the funders already giving to health in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The New York and Presbyterian Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.

Who is the largest health funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to health organizations in New York, $313M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to health in New York?

$4.3B reached 1,130 health organizations in New York, from 4,628 funders. 76% came from funders also based in New York.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New York · Health

Who funds health in New York

Health funding in New York is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though The New York and Presbyterian Hospital leads, and the money reaches 1,130 groups. New York's health organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 4 funders each.

$4.3B

granted

1,130

organizations

76%

from in-state

The short version

4,628 funders gave $4.3B to 1,130 health organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
76% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of health in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $313M.
The health organization drawing the most is The New York and Presbyterian Hospital, at $391M.

Largest funders of health in New York

The funders giving the most to health organizations in New York, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$313M 2The New York and Presbyterian Hospital$238M 3New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$234M 4Newyork-Presbyterianqueens$213M 5The Rochester General Hospital$127M 6Northwell Health Foundation$108M 7Royal Charter Properties East Inc$94M 8Nyu Langone Hospitals$92M 9National Philanthropic Trust$86M 10Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca$75M

Health organizations in New York that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,120 other health organizations$2.4B

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital$391M Planned Parenthood Federation Of$312M Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$275M New York Queens Medicine & Surgery PC$231M

How to find health funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to health in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The New York and Presbyterian Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc. A funder already writing health checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the health organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
24% of health money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national health funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a health nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to health in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The New York and Presbyterian Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest health funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to health organizations in New York, $313M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to health in New York?: $4.3B reached 1,130 health organizations in New York, from 4,628 funders. 76% came from funders also based in New York.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.