New York · Nonprofit
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,125,053 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($19,478,550). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Fund for Public Health in New York Inc does
Mission
The fund for public health in nyc is dedicated to the well-being of all nyc residents, implementing programs in collaboration with the nyc health department, leveraging its expertise in fundraising, public/private partnerships, and agile operations to help the nyc health department do more, more quickly.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through an agreement with the nyc department of health and mental hygiene, fphnyc provides fiscal, administrative, and strategic implementation support for a range of federally funded projects that enable the health department to respond rapidly to emerging public health issues, address disparities in health outcomes and access to care, and strengthen public health infrastructure. In fy25, this included a variety efforts aimed increasing the department's capacity and systems for detecting, collecting, processing, and reporting public health disease data in real-time.
$38,925,336 spent49% of program spendingThrough an agreement with the nyc department of health and mental hygiene, fphnyc provides fiscal, administrative, and strategic implementation support for a range of high priority projects that enable the health department to respond rapidly to emerging public health issues, address disparities in health outcomes and access to care, and strengthen public health infrastructure. In fy25, these efforts included: the healthnyc learning collaborative project, an effort to bring together the diverse stakeholders to invest in and implement evidence-based strategies that will have the most impact in reducing the biggest drivers of premature mortality; the public health corps, a city-wide effort to expand the public health workforce and eliminate health inequities by partnering with community groups and community health workers; the citywide doula initiative, which provides free access to home visitors and doula support for birthing people and parenting families; and the naloxone vending machine project, which aims to reduce stigma for substance use disorder (sud) by providing new yorkers convenient, anonymous, and free access to naloxone, syringes, and a wide variety of other health and…
$31,405,850 spent40% of program spendingThe overdose data to action program, funded through the u.s. Centers for disease control and prevention, is aimed at implementing prevention activities and collecting accurate, comprehensive, and timely data on nonfatal and fatal overdoses and in using those data to enhance programmatic and surveillance efforts. The funding supports the new york city department of health and mental hygiene's efforts to monitor, track, and respond to drug-related harms, including: enhancing overdose prevention training; expanding naloxone distribution; increasing linkages to substance use treatment and care; and strengthening real-time drug-related morbidity surveillance.
$3,782,734 spent5% of program spendingVarious activities and grants support the advancement of the health and wellbeing of all new york city residents and in support of the new york city department of health's programs and activities.
$5,164,337 spent$609,491 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,278,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $57M to $95M (+66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 75% · 2019 76% · 2020 92% · 2021 89% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% · 2024 91% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sara W Gardner
CEO until 7/10/26
Board chair
Michelle Morse Md Mph
Board president and chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $6.9M.
8 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 53% · 2019 90% · 2020 68% · 2021 41% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $823k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $124.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$113.8M
- Department of Agriculture$11.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC?
- FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,125,053 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($19,478,550). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $40,125,053 in grants to FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,478,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing