· Private foundation
Albert Penick Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAST CANCER OPTIONS | $5,000 |
| WBGONEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC | $5,000 |
| BIG INDIAN-OLIVEREA FIRE CO INC | $3,000 |
| PHOENICIA LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| THE MAYA GOLD FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| THE SAMADHI RECOVERY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FVFROST VALLEY YMCA7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +42%
- PHPINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER LTD7× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +103%
- BCBREAST CANCER OPTIONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- AASTRAEAone grant, 2017 · $13k
- FOFRIENDS OF TANNERSVILLE ORGANIZATIOone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIDHUDSON VALone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
To provide nyc children from low-income families with cultural, recreational, and educational experiences at its camps and with volunteer host families and through year-round academic programs.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that…
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Providing means for performing artists to show skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is 23 Arts Initiative Inc. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds PINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MAYA GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RUTH GOTTSCHO KIDNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Big Indian Oliverea Fire Co Inc ↗
- Who funds Ulster Literacy Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Shandaken Theatrical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENICIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESERVOIR FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · Kvistad Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Albert Penick Fund 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.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
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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