· Private foundation
Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVOCATES FOR SCHULYERVILLE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE 180 | $22,000 |
| SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUND | $20,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MEDIA ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING | $19,480 |
| THE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION | $18,960 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA | $17,000 |
| STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| FORT TICONDEROGA | $10,325 |
| GREENFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARATOGA SPGS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 55% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- TWTHE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +16%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC4× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +76%
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BALLSTON LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SPSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +48%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue +127%
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.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The Saratoga County History Center collects and preserves artifacts and materials relating to the hisory of Saratoga county. The Center makes these material available for research and also for educational programs.
To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts
Opera saratoga's innovative world class performances and programs inspire, educate, and heal audiences and artists through the power of the human voice.
To promote education in the arts.
The organization's mission is to ensure that performing arts will continue to be available in downtown smithtown, new york and preserve the historic nature of the smithtown center for performing arts.
The mission of the Saratoga Historical Foundation is to preserve the rich history of Saratoga for the education and enjoyment of the community.
To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hop On Home Rabbit Sanctuary 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 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 141 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 THE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA CTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NIPPER KNOLLS EQUINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE180 INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Saratoga Automobile Museum ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wayward Ranch Animal Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER 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 the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Touba Family Foundation Inc · Saratoga Casino Hotel Foundation Inc · Glens Falls Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · The Mitzen 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 Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust 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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