· Private foundation
Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF BROOME CITY | $40,000 |
| LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC | $10,000 |
| BINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC | $10,000 |
| BROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC | $5,000 |
| TRI-CITIES OPERA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LHLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +101%
- LALUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +190%
- BCBROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- ACAmerican Civic Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +331%
- CRCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2020 · $20k
- GTGoodwill Theatre Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote a thriving arts community, essential to the quality of life in broome county ny and advance the awareness and value of the arts through advocacy, fundraising, grant making, services, and programs.
The organization strives to challenge entertain and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. this relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in…
Performance of opera in staged productions with orchestra and in concert at affordable prices for the Bronx community and other parts of the New York City area
To provide a live musical experience that is professional, educational, and entertaining
Productions
The schenectady light opera company, inc.'s (sloc) purpose is to develop an appreciation of the musical arts in the local community by promoting and producing musical productions.
To engage and inspire community members throughout Central New York through outstanding orchestra and ensemble performances, and innovative education and outreach initiatives.
To further art education and appreciation.
The mission of the barre opera house inc. is to restore, preserve and operate the historic barre opera house as a center for the performing arts serving the entire central vermont community.
To lessen the burdens of government and to foster the creation, retention, and expansion of jobs and economic opportunities for the benefit of the City of Buffalo, New York, and the local economy. The Corporation's operations are conducted…
Enhance cutural life of local area
Bring on the Spectrum's mission is to support neurodiverse individuals with the means to achieve a quality of life as a respected member of the Capital Region of NY. We achieve this through social, recreational and lifestyle activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BINGHAMTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Binghamton Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR UKRAINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEK PEAK ADAPTIVE SNOWSPORTS ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds PUNCH OUT PARKINSONS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WESTERN BROOME INC ↗
- Who funds Tennis Charities of Binghamton Inc co Howard Rittberg LG&T ↗
- Who funds Arrowhead Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds Happy Tails No Kill Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN TIER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds SPEAK ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SAVOYARDS 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.
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
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 Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) 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.
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.
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