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Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust at a glance

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Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$338k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$347kEducation$322kReligion$142kRecreation & Sports$128kAnimals$128kEnvironment$109kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $273k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARATOGA SPGS$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 7%JEWISH COMM CTR OF STATEN ISLAND: $13k → 11%CITY MISSION SOCIETY (BUFFALO): $5k → 13%BATTENKILL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 11%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOC OF GLENS FALLS: $5k → 10%WIAWAKA HOLIDAY HOUSE: $7k → 10%BIKEATOGA INC: $10k → 7%BIKEATOGA INC: $5k → 7%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 77%.

Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 49 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
80

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+31%

Still filing today

69%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TW
    THE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +16%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +76%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE BALLSTON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SP
    SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +48%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue +127%
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
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
2
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
3
Newcomb Historical Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Saratoga County History Center

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

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6
Lake George Opera Festival Association Inc

Opera saratoga's innovative world class performances and programs inspire, educate, and heal audiences and artists through the power of the human voice.

Arts & Culture
7
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts

To promote education in the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Smithtown Performing Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Saratoga Historical Foundation

The mission of the Saratoga Historical Foundation is to preserve the rich history of Saratoga for the education and enjoyment of the community.

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10
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in

To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.

Arts & Culture
11
Fulton County Historical Society

Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.

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12
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 141 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/81
Grantees still filing
54/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $600,000 · OtherSARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC: $150,000 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INCFRIENDS OF THE BALLSTON LIBRARY: $100,000 · Other+88 more: $1,210,596 · Other+88 moreNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $168,766 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF…SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORMIN…EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $39,500 · Arts & CultureEMPIRE STATE YOUTH…THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $35,350 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDERO…WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureWE ARE INSTRUMENTA…Saratoga Automobile Museum: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGlens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc: $26,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNational Bottle Museum Inc: $20,705 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $119,107 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTHE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WESLEY FOUND…THE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION INC: $18,960 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropySARATOGA CTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $64,623 · EducationADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC: $46,869 · EducationSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $28,000 · EducationCRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $18,350 · EducationSTILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · EducationAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentSARATOGA PLAN INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentLAKE GEORGE BATTLEFIELD PARK (FORT GEORGE) ALLIANCE: $22,473 · EnvironmentGRASSLAND BIRD TRUST INC: $13,650 · EnvironmentLake George Land Conservancy Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $25,000 · AnimalsWayward Ranch Animal Sanctuary Inc: $25,000 · AnimalsWILTON WILDLIFE PRESERVE AND PARK INC: $14,185 · AnimalsHOP ON HOME RABBIT SANCTUARY INC: $12,000 · AnimalsBROOME COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · AnimalsCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBIKEATOGA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $13,240 · Human ServicesBATTENKILL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesWIAWAKA HOLIDAY HOUSE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF GLENS FALLS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,060,596Arts & Culture$599,428Philanthropy$524,960Education$172,842Environment$136,123Animals$82,185Human Services$78,240

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 budgetTHE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $168,766 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC: $150,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetSARATOGA CTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $64,623 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS: $53,355 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNIPPER KNOLLS EQUINE CENTER INC: $49,825 over 5y, 33% of budgetADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC: $46,869 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetALLIANCE180 INC: $44,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSARATOGA PLAN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $39,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $35,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSaratoga Automobile Museum: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $28,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGlens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWayward Ranch Animal Sanctuary Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetFRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNational Bottle Museum Inc: $20,705 over 2y, 18% of budgetSARATOGA SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION INC: $18,960 over 1y, 17% of budgetCRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $18,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC: $18,343 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION: $18,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $16,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CREATIVE PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,245 over 4y, 13% of budgetLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $16,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBATTENKILL CONSERVANCY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMarcella Sembrich Memorial Assoc Inc: $15,984 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSTILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSARATOGA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILTON WILDLIFE PRESERVE AND PARK INC: $14,185 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGRASSLAND BIRD TRUST INC: $13,650 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $13,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM ART WORKS INC: $13,063 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBATTENKILL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP LITTLE NOTCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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…Price Chopper's Golub…JM McDonald Foundatio…Charles R Wood Founda…William Gundry Brough…The Touba Family Foun…Saratoga Casino Hotel…Glens Falls FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Cloudsplitter Foundat…The Adirondack Trust …The Mitzen Foundation…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY66.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust 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 141 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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