· Private foundation
Betty Binger Charitable Trust
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS | $10,000 |
| LUCKY ORPHANS HORSE RESCUE | $10,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| VALLEY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MDMIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +225%
- DCDUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +32%
- LOLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- KSKENT SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +9%
- PDPOUGHKEEPSIE DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +28%
- LALITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGSone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Operation of Animal Shelter
The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Operation of a no-kill animal shelter
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3) organized to protect animals from abuse and neglect.(see schedule o)the nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3)…
Wanderers' rest humane association is an open admission compassionate care shelter dedicated to providing the highest quality care and compassion for the animals entrusted to us while leading our community in creating a more humane society.
ANIMAL RESCUE and adoption of animals
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
Animal haven is a nonprofit organization that finds homes for dogs and cats throughout the tristate area. it operates out of its adoption center in lower manhattan which has facilities for dog training and grooming as part of the adoption…
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
Enforce NYS laws against animal cruelty and abuse. Promote animal welfare and find homes for abandoned and unwanted pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dutchess County Spca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 MIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY CORP ↗
- Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY 10-13 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DIANAS CAT SHELTER 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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Betty Binger Charitable 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, a single department, or state — 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.