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Adirondack Foundation

ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is a community foundation and a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, autonomous, publicly supported, philanthropic institution formed for the following purposes:1.

$9.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
313
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$8.7MArts & Culture$5.8MEnvironment$4.9MHealth$2.1MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.6MRecreation & Sports$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 313 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 313 grants below total $8,228,115 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,167,394 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $939,279 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $384k
  • $10k–50k213 grants · $3.6M
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $675k
$12,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS (ALCA)$425,000
ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE$250,000
PENDRAGON THEATRE$225,000
CLOUDSPLITTER FOUNDATION$200,000
BRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC$150,000
BRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC$150,000
TICONDEROGA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$144,945
LPHSA INC$125,000
HOMESTEAD DEVELOPMENT CORP$120,000
TUPPER LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
LAKE GEORGE LAND CONSERVANCY$100,000
LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR THE ARTS (LPCA)$100,000
HOMESTEAD DEVELOPMENT CORP$100,000
LAWYERS DEFENDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC$100,000
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS (ALCA)$98,172
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%SILVER SPRINGS MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL (DBA GEMMA SERVICES): $10k → 7%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $10k → 11%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF FULTON COUNTY INC: $20k → 13%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $125k → 16%THE CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $10k → 10%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $150k → 12%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $115k → 16%HUMANITY'S TEAM: $25k → 12%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $18k → 12%WAKE ROBIN: $10k → 10%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $20k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $10k → 12%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $20k → 11%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $10k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $10k → 12%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SMALL TALES EARLY LEARNING CENTER AND DAY CARE: $10k → 10%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SMALL TALES DAY CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%THE BRIGID PROJECT: $10k → 14%THE BRIGID PROJECT: $10k → 14%ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $30k → 10%LEAVENERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OGDENSBURG: $25k → 14%TENDERCARE TOT CENTER INC: $20k → 13%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $23k → 14%TENDERCARE TOT CENTER INC: $20k → 13%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $20k → 14%ST LAWRENCE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $25k → 18%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $18k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $16k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $15k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $15k → 14%CHILDCARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $11k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $11k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $11k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN LAKE PBS: $10k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $10k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $10k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $10k → 14%ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC: $18k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE INC: $13k → 16%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $17k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $11k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Adirondack Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Adirondack Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 232 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

232 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

232
173

Total granted

$29M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+10%

Still filing today

79%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +4%
  • LP
    LITTLE PEAKS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +213% · 45% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +823%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF KEENE
    one grant, 2023 · $126k
  • FC
    FLYING CHANGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $97k
  • AT
    ADIRONDACK TRI-COUNTY NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $81k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
2
Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce Inc

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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3
The Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History

To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.

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4
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
5
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Adirondack League Club

To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.

Recreation & Sports
8
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

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9
Woodland Pond Inc

Woodland pond, inc. dba woodland pond at new paltz, was created to construct and operate a continuing care retirement community (the "ccrc") named woodland pond at new paltz, under article 46 of new york state public health law.the ccrc…

Housing & Shelter
10
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
11
Upper Hudson Northern Catskill Natural Resource Trust Inc

To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.

Environment
12
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cloudsplitter Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDiverse Nonprofit ServicesSupportive Housing & Servic…Regional Economic & Communi…Performing Arts Organizatio…International University Su…Volunteer Emergency ServicesProfessional Trade Associat…Youth Sports ProgramsInternational Health and De…Classical Music Performance…Urban Planning & Civic Enga…Healthcare Delivery & Suppo…Vermont Community Organizat…Grantmaking Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%2/452
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,308

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

341 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 341 of the 458 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
81
Early backer (in before they grew)
333/341
Grantees still filing
219/341
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,126,600 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYLAKE PLACID CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — $843,609 · OtherLAKE PLACID CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTHomestead Development Corporation — $651,200 · Other+105 more — $9,645,737 · Other+105 moreST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,370,310 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYBRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,243,000 · EducationBRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION I…LITTLE PEAKS INC — $1,223,224 · EducationLITTLE PEAKS INCNorthern Forest Center Inc — $723,000 · EducationNorthern Forest Center IncPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $691,733 · EducationPAUL SMITHS COLLEGEAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc — $340,406 · Education+24 more — $1,743,807 · Education+24 moreTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC — $1,034,695 · Arts & CultureTHE LAKE PLACID A…ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $847,700 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK HISTOR…ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $809,837 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK LAKES …PENDRAGON INC — $486,424 · Arts & CulturePENDRAGON INCADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC — $360,260 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK EXPLOR…THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDER…+14 more — $916,931 · Arts & Culture+14 moreADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC — $953,701 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC — $475,500 · EnvironmentNORTHERN FOREST ATLAS FOUNDATION INC — $338,000 · EnvironmentLake George Land Conservancy Inc — $160,000 · EnvironmentAUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED — $106,625 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $100,000 · Environment+5 more — $271,337 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $605,150 · PhilanthropyINFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE INC — $453,533 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATION — $393,347 · PhilanthropySARANAC LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $263,794 · PhilanthropyHigh Peaks Education Foundation — $131,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE ADIRONDACK REGION INC — $121,194 · Philanthropy+2 more — $80,000 · PhilanthropyADKACTIONORG INC — $541,559 · Community ImprovementCLIFTON FINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON — $164,650 · Community ImprovementADIRONDACK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $117,500 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC — $89,874 · Community ImprovementSARANAC LAKE CIVIC CENTER INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementPride of Ticonderoga Inc — $60,000 · Community ImprovementLP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INC — $56,000 · Community ImprovementTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE — $51,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $60,200 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE — $458,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC — $194,170 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC — $82,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC — $72,030 · Human ServicesADIRONDACK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesTENDERCARE TOT CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM OUTREACH INC — $40,000 · Human Services+6 more — $175,846 · Human Services
Other$12,267,146Education$7,335,480Arts & Culture$4,730,847Environment$2,405,163Philanthropy$2,048,018Community Improvement$1,220,783Human Services$1,110,046

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,370,310 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,243,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetLITTLE PEAKS INC — $1,223,224 over 6y, 45% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,126,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC — $1,034,695 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC — $953,701 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $847,700 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $809,837 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc — $723,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $691,733 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHomestead Development Corporation — $651,200 over 4y, 10% of budgetADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $605,150 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetADKACTIONORG INC — $541,559 over 8y, 29% of budgetPENDRAGON INC — $486,424 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC — $475,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE — $458,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetINFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE INC — $453,533 over 9y, 100% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION — $393,347 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC — $379,200 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC — $360,260 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetCLOUDSPLITTER FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc — $340,406 over 7y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN FOREST ATLAS FOUNDATION INC — $338,000 over 9y, 48% of budgetSHORE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION OF LAKE PLACID — $316,467 over 3y, 71% of budgetADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC — $296,237 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetYMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC — $291,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC — $279,000 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $275,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSARANAC LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $263,794 over 6y, 58% of budgetSAGAMORE INSTITUTE OF THE ADIRONDACKS INC — $251,985 over 8y, 12% of budgetNEW YORK SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $241,820 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SPCA INC — $220,485 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $220,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMALONE RECREATION FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC — $194,170 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $192,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPLAY ADK INC — $185,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC — $183,818 over 9y, 14% of budgetNORTHWOOD SCHOOL — $183,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLAKESIDE PRESCHOOL INC — $170,100 over 5y, 21% of budgetCLIFTON FINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON — $164,650 over 9y, 68% of budgetLake George Land Conservancy Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNEWCOMB HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $150,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $143,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX FOOD HUB INC — $141,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $135,936 over 8y, 14% of budgetWILDERNESS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 9y, 20% of budgetHigh Peaks Education Foundation — $131,000 over 3y, 15% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE PEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Homestead Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ADKACTIONORG INC ↗
  • Who funds PENDRAGON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOUDSPLITTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Christ Church Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN FOREST ATLAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHORE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION OF LAKE PLACID ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SARANAC LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE OF THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MALONE RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY ADK INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cloudsplitter Foundat…Glenn and Carol Pears…Charles R Wood Founda…JM McDonald Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…Henry Uihlein II and …United Way of the Adi…Staritch Foundation I…The Community Foundat…Lake Placid Education…Boquet Foundation IncMother Cabrini Health…
Cloudsplitter FoundationNY185.9× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun · Charles R Wood Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Henry Uihlein II and Mildred a Uihlein Foundation · United Way of the Adirondack Region Inc · Staritch Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Lake Placid Education Foundation · Boquet Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Adirondack Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Choral International Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 458 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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