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Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$105k25%
FY20245$32k20%
FY20236$98k17%
FY20228$110k50%
FY20218$81k38%
FY20208$90k38%
FY201911$80k64%
FY201810$83k40%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$232kArts & Culture$180kEducation$150kRecreation & Sports$73kCommunity Improvement$47kAnimals$24kPublic Benefit$20kInternational$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLourdes Hospital Foundation Inc: $220,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLuma Arts Initiative Inc: $68,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetBinghamton Downtown Singers Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBinghamton Local Development Corporation: $46,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Civic Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBroome County Humane Society and Relief Association: $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTogether for Ukraine Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBinghamton Philharmonic Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGreek Peak Adaptive Snowsports: $11,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPunch Out Parkinsons Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetGoodwill Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Western Broome Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTennis Charities of Binghamton Inc co Howard Rittberg LG&T: $8,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetArrowhead Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe American Legion: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoberson Museum and Science Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHappy Tails No Kill Animal Shelter Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Southern Tier Zoological Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rescue Mission Alliance of Syracuse: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Savoyards Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Community Foundation for South Central New York IncNY30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc · Bgm Foundation · Raymond Foundation · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Harvey & Elizabeth Prior Shriber Charitable Foundation Trust · The Victor& Esther Rozen Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) with peer funders

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How do I get to Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)?

Find your warmest path to Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)

How much does Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) give?
Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) reported 8 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Arts & Culture (23%), Education (19%).
Who are Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lourdes Hospital Foundation Inc ($220k), Luma Arts Initiative Inc ($68k), Binghamton Downtown Singers Inc ($52k).
Does Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc, George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc, The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc.
Where is Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) based?
Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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