· Private foundation
Bank of Utica Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k102 grants · $203k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM (MVHS) | $100,000 |
| MUNSON WILLIAMS PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE | $82,500 |
| CNY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL INC (THE STANLEY) | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC | $30,000 |
| YWCA MOHAWK VALLEY | $27,500 |
| ICAN INC (FOR THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM) | $25,000 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY EDGE | $17,000 |
| JCTOD OUTREACH (JOHNSON PARK CTR) | $15,000 |
| UTICA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC | $10,000 |
| RESCUE MISSON OF UTICA | $10,000 |
| THE ONE CHARITY GOLF (UFCW) | $9,000 |
| UTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,000 |
| BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE | $8,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $122k) 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 +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
157 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 12 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CACENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +84%
- UZUTICA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +40%
- UPUTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MVMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue -8%
- GWGREATER WINFIELD MEDICAL BUILDING INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TETEMPLE EMANU-ELone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
The purpose of this organization is to encourage the location and expansion of industrial and manufacturing capacity. in addition, the corporation strives for the creation of new and improved job opportunities in the city of utica and the…
Membership activities- maintain a climate which encourages and assists businesses to locate, grow and prosper in the mohawk valley of new york state.
Our mission is to establish a small, cooperative community in upstate & central new york where the most driven individuals can network, acquire and share priceless talents, and develop both personally and professionally. as a result, we…
We preserve, revitalize, and support the commercial district, creating a center of choiceby collaborating with residents and stakeholders to foster a successful community.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
The organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.
Providing cultural and educational programs to the homer, new york community. to enhance the quality of life for the people of the central new york community that preserves and enriches local culture and provides stewardship for a…
To sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in upper manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments, and small business assistance.
Advocates for upstate medical university/university hospital was formed to promote and advance the welfare of upstate medical university, a campus of suny, which is an agency of the state of ny. upstate includes university hospital as well…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighborhood Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Proctor Football Boosters 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 31 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UTICA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UTICA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOILERMAKER ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JCTOD OUTREACH INC D/B/A JOHNSON PARK CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC ↗
- Who funds Business Training Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE UTICA CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE 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 of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · UpMobility Foundation Inc · The Rob Esche Save of the Day Foundation Inc · Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Jeremiah O McCarthy Family 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 Bank of Utica Foundation Inc 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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