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Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) at a glance

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Ahearn Foundation (Pfd)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF BROOME CITY$40,000
LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC$10,000
BROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
BINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC$10,000
ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER$5,000
BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC$5,000
TRI-CITIES OPERA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 20%RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$681k · 17 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$681k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

65%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +101%
  • LA
    LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +190%
  • BC
    BROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • AC
    American Civic Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +331%
  • CR
    CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • GT
    Goodwill Theatre Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Broome County Arts Council

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Adirondack Theatre Festival Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Bronx Opera Company Inc

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

Arts & Culture
4
Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc

To provide a live musical experience that is professional, educational, and entertaining

Arts & Culture
5
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
6
Schenectady Light Opera Company Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Musical Associates of Central New York

To engage and inspire community members throughout Central New York through outstanding orchestra and ensemble performances, and innovative education and outreach initiatives.

Arts & Culture
8
Bronx Arts Ensemble Inc

To further art education and appreciation.

Arts & Culture
9
Barre Opera House Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Broadway Market Management Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Bridge Street Theatre Inc

Enhance cutural life of local area

Arts & Culture
12
Bring on the Spectrum Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF BROOME CITY: $150,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF BROOME CITYBINGHAMTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $46,500 · OtherBINGHAMTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONSETON CATHOLIC CENTRAL HS: $40,000 · OtherSETON CATHOLIC CENTRAL HSAmerican Civic Association Inc: $20,000 · OtherAmerican Civic Association IncCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE+11 more: $55,100 · Other+11 moreLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 · HealthLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCPUNCH OUT PARKINSONS INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC: $52,000 · Arts & CultureBINGHAMTON D…Binghamton Philharmonic Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBinghamton P…Goodwill Theatre Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGoodwill The…TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRI-CITIES O…ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROBERSON MUS…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $68,000 · PhilanthropyLUMA ARTS I…Tennis Charities of Binghamton Inc co Howard Rittberg LG&T: $8,000 · PhilanthropyTennis Char…BROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $19,000 · AnimalsHappy Tails No Kill Animal Shelter Inc: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE SOUTHERN TIER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · AnimalsTOGETHER FOR UKRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEALS ON WHEELS OF WESTERN BROOME INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$331,600Health$231,000Arts & Culture$88,000Philanthropy$76,000Animals$23,500International$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Foundat…George a and Margaret…The Stewart W & Willm…Bgm FoundationRaymond FoundationThe Tsb Foundation IncDr G Clifford & Flore…Miller S & Adelaide S…Tioga Downs Regional …The Harvey & Elizabet…The Victor& Esther Ro…Price Chopper's Golub…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahearn Foundation (Pfd). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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