FundersNew York

Health Forward Foundation Inc

Frankfort, NY · EIN 15-6018016. Reported 40 grants totalling $245,143 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,614median grant
$245,143granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,382,645assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Health Forward Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,614. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $825 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Herkimer BocesHerkimer, NY$44,064442024
Utica UniversityUtica, NY$35,276332024
Masonic Care CommunityUtica, NY$26,182332024
Valley Health Services IncHerkimer, NY$24,360442024
Slocum Dickson Educational InstituteNew Hartford, NY$20,000112021
Muslim Community Association of Mohawk ValleyUtica, NY$15,000112022
Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning inUtica, NY$13,600332024
Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida CountiesUtica, NY$10,000112022
Herkimer County Comm CollHerkimer, NY$8,000442024
Utica CollegeUtica, NY$7,500112021
Upstate Family Health CenterUtica, NY$7,000112021
Cornell Cooperative Ext Herk CtyHerkimer, NY$5,875112021
Elder Life Dba Parkway CenterUtica, NY$5,000222022
Hospice Care & Palliative CareNew Hartford, NY$4,685332023
Charles T Sitrin Health Care CenterNew Hartford, NY$4,226112024
Oneida Herkimer Madison BocesNew Hartford, NY$4,000222022
Oneida Madison BocesNew Hartford, NY$4,000222024
Little Falls HospitalLittle Falls, NY$2,375112021
Copper City Community ConnectionRome, NY$2,000112021
St Margaret's HouseNew Hartford, NY$2,000112023

10 of 20 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
7 grants
Education
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$66,944$2,500
202210$68,204$4,150
20239$45,274$3,428
20248$64,721$7,113

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Utica, NY
$120K
Herkimer, NY
$82K
New Hartford, NY
$39K
Little Falls, NY
$2K
Rome, NY
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,614. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Health Forward Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2676 Southside Rd, Frankfort, NY, 13340. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 15-6018016 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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