· Community foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $384k
- $10k–50k213 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| LAWYERS DEFENDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC | $100,000 |
| LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR THE ARTS (LPCA) | $100,000 |
| LAKE GEORGE LAND CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| HOMESTEAD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS (ALCA) | $98,172 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Adirondack Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +4%- LPLITTLE PEAKS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +213% · 45% of their budget
- TLTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +823%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF KEENEone grant, 2023 · $126k
- FCFLYING CHANGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $97k
- ATADIRONDACK TRI-COUNTY NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $81k · revenue -100%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
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.
To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
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…
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.
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.
To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
To support and assist adirondack medical center, an exempt healthcare organization.
To be a trusted independent and nonpartisan source of information on topics of importance to our hudson highlands communities. through both our print edition, the highlands current, and our website, highlandscurrent.org, we seek to provide…
How this is measured
341 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adirondack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adirondack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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