New York Health Foundation

Name

New York Health Foundation

Legal name

New York Health Foundation

Website

https://nyhealthfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Grantmaking

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Community Food Services (624210), Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Research Funding Agencies (Public/Quasi-Public) (HLAJALAB), Community Health, Prevention & Health Education (BPAGACAC), Health Systems Strengthening & Primary Care Development (HLAJAKAJ)

Keywords

• Health philanthropy
• Grantmaking foundation
• Health policy advocacy
• Community health funding
• Public health research

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) is a private nonprofit foundation that awards grants to community-based organizations, healthcare providers, academic institutions, and advocacy groups across New York State. Its grantmaking focuses on priority areas including Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; Primary Care; Veterans' Health; and Special Projects Fund. Beyond grantmaking, NYHealth conducts policy research, publishes data briefs and reports on pressing health issues, and advocates for systemic improvements in New York's health system.

Product overview

New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) is a philanthropic organization focused on improving health in New York State through grantmaking, research, policy analysis, and advocacy. The foundation does not offer a commercial technology product or software platform; rather, it provides funding to community organizations, publishes data-driven reports and policy briefs, and supports initiatives in areas including healthy food access, primary care strengthening, veterans' health, and substance use disorder treatment. NYHealth operates as a grant-making foundation rather than a product-based company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthy Food, Healthy Lives Grant Program Funding program supporting community-based initiatives that improve access to healthy, affordable food and address food insecurity across New York State, including support for SNAP enrollment, nutrition programs, and hunger relief services.
• Primary Care Grant Program Funding program strengthening primary care capacity, workforce, and access across New York State, particularly in rural and underserved regions, to address the gap where primary care receives only 3-5% of New York's total health spending.
• Veterans' Health Grant Program Funding program supporting veterans' health services, suicide prevention, mental health support, and substance use treatment for New York veterans, who face elevated risks of suicide and barriers to affirming healthcare.
• Special Projects Fund Flexible funding mechanism supporting time-sensitive and innovative health projects across New York State that fall outside the foundation's core priority areas.
• Policy Research and Data Briefs Independent research publications and policy analyses on pressing health issues affecting New Yorkers, including reports on SNAP participation gaps, primary care investment, food insecurity among older adults, and veterans' health outcomes.

Quantifiable outcome

• NOEP navigators enrolled more than 30,000 households and reached 160,000 potentially eligible households between 2024 and 2025, representing approximately $131 million in food purchasing and $201 million in economic activity
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Primary Care Development CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026NYHealth partnered with the Primary Care Development Corporation to produce 'The State of Primary Care in New York: A 2025 Data Update' report analyzing urgent primary care challenges including workforce capacity, rural access, and primary care investment in New York State.
• Hunger Solutions New YorkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth works with Hunger Solutions New York to support NOEP (Nutrition Outreach and Education Program), which helps eligible New Yorkers enroll in SNAP. NOEP navigators enrolled more than 30,000 households and reached 160,000 potentially eligible households between 2024 and 2025.
• New York State Department of Health, AIDS InstitutemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2025, NYHealth awarded $250,000 to the NYS DOH AIDS Institute to expand drug checking services across New York, supporting community-based sites to test drugs for toxic additives and provide harm reduction interventions.
• Partnership to End AddictionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2024, NYHealth awarded $225,000 to Partnership to End Addiction to develop and test a text messaging intervention for pregnant and postpartum New Yorkers struggling with substance use, reaching 500 people in Dutchess, Delaware, Orange, and Sullivan counties.
• Cornell University, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical CollegemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth awarded Weill Cornell Medicine a $186,799 grant (2017-2019) to improve electronic health records to encourage physicians to prescribe opioids consistent with CDC guidelines, increasing adherence from 12% to 31%.
• Essex County Public HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth awarded $120,000 to Essex County Public Health in 2016 to implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program to combat substance use disorders in Essex County's North Country region.
• The American Congress of Obstetricians and GynecologistsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth awarded $224,681 to ACOG in 2016 to improve knowledge and awareness of opioid use and safety in pregnant women among obstetricians and gynecologists in rural and upstate New York regions.
• St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth awarded St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center a grant in 2018 to expand SBIRT opioid intervention programs to health care providers throughout the North Country region of New York State.
• Propel and GiveDirectlymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2025, NYHealth awarded $1,000,000 to Propel and GiveDirectly to provide immediate cash relief to New York families at risk of hunger amid government shutdowns and SNAP benefit delays.
• University at Buffalo (Research Foundation for SUNY)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNYHealth awarded $166,797 to University at Buffalo to expand a mobile vaccine program in Erie County and other parts of rural Western New York to increase childhood immunization rates.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• New York State Health Foundation (NYHealth) is the anchor; Empire Health Foundation (WA): Empire Health Foundation is a Washington State health conversion foundation funding behavioral health, early learning, and health equity. It is a regional-state peer with comparable conversion-foundation origin and portfolio structure.
• Health Foundation for Western & Central New York: Health Foundation for Western & Central New York is a sub-state regional health foundation working on community health, aging, and behavioral health in New York. NYHealth operates in overlapping geography but at statewide scope, making it a sub-regional peer.

Direct peers

• California Health Care Foundation: California Health Care Foundation is a state-level health philanthropy focused on improving California's health system through grantmaking, research, and policy. NYHealth is a near-equivalent in mission and structure for New York, making it a strong direct peer.
• The New York Community Trust: The New York Community Trust is a large NY-focused public charity making grants across health, education, and human services. NYHealth shares its NY-centric grantmaking model and grantee ecosystem, making it the closest direct comparable.
• California Wellness Foundation: California Wellness Foundation funds health and wellness programs targeting vulnerable populations in California. NYHealth's veterans' health, food security, and opioid crisis portfolios are structurally similar in targeting underserved populations within a single state.
• Missouri Foundation for Health: Missouri Foundation for Health is a regional health foundation that uses grantmaking, research, and advocacy to improve health outcomes in its service area. NYHealth mirrors this state-level, multi-strategy approach to health philanthropy.
• United Hospital Fund: United Hospital Fund is a New York-based nonprofit that conducts health policy research, analysis, and grantmaking to improve health care in New York. NYHealth shares its NY-specific health policy research and grantmaking model.

Broad incumbents

• The Commonwealth Fund: The Commonwealth Fund is a national foundation focused on health policy, primary care, and vulnerable populations. NYHealth's primary care strengthening and health policy research work directly overlaps with Commonfund's mission and approach.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest US health-focused philanthropy, funding research, policy, and community health initiatives nationwide. NYHealth operates in a similar grantmaking-and-advocacy model but at a statewide scale, making it a smaller-scale broad incumbent in the same space.

Emerging players

• Center for Health Care Strategies: Center for Health Care Strategies partners with states to improve Medicaid and health services for low-income populations through policy and program design. NYHealth's SNAP enrollment and primary care strengthening work intersects with CHCS's Medicaid-focused approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NYHFoundation
• Facebookfacebook.com/NewYorkHealthFoundation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ny-health-foundation

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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