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Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bobbie and John G Ullman Family 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.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$515kHuman Services$240kArts & Culture$223kPhilanthropy$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCrime & Legal$4kHealth$4k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY CENTER$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,127
CORNING PAINTED POST SCHOOL DISTRICT$28,382
FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC$21,500
FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC$8,200
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER$8,100
CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$4,000
CORNING PAINTED POST CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC$2,000
CASA OF THE SOUTHERN TIER$1,500
PATHWAYS INC$475
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 (FY17–25, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $4k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $43k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $30k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $22k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $21k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $20k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $17k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $16k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $14k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $11k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $8k → 13%NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $5k → 13%PATHWAYS INC: $4k → 13%CASA OF THE SOUTHERN TIER: $2k → 13%NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 13%NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 13%CASA OF THE SOUTHERN TIER: $2k → 13%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 13%PATHWAYS INC: $475 → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 10 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$911k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+6%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • RS
    Regional Science and Discovery Center
    7× · 2017–2025 · $387k · revenue +28% · 43% of their budget
  • FS
    Family Service Society Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +20%
  • CC
    CHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $143k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROCKWELL MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +83%
  • SS
    SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
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
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
2
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
3
Cortland County Child Development - Day Care Program Inc

To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County

Human Services
4
Cortland Regional Sports Council Inc

The Cortland Regional Sports Council, Inc. was formed to promote and develop sport, athletic and recreational opportunities, events, competitions, and educational opportunities for Cortland County, New York.

Recreation & Sports
5
Four County Library System

Cooperative library system

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6
The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…

Unclassified
7
Rochester Civic Theatre

The mission of rochester civic theatre is to engage community organizations through collaboration and shared resources, enrich lives through education and outreach, and elevate human connection through theatre arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc

Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers

Arts & Culture
9
Schoharie River Center Inc

The schoharie river center provides cultural and educational programming about the ecology and environment of the schoharie and mohawk watersheds and the people who live within it.

Arts & Culture
10
Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services
11
Family Services of Chemung County Inc

The purpose of family services is to assist individuals, families and the community in meeting the complexities of daily living by fostering the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships and promote healthy, independent…

Health
12
Chemung County Library District

Chemung county library district provides exceptional public library services and programs to our citizens - fulfilling their individual needs for educational, recreational, and cultural information - through contemporary, well-maintained…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Greater Rochester (4368); the most unlike its peers is The Rockwell Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Regional Science and Discovery Center: $386,811 · Arts & CultureRegional Science and Discovery CenterCHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER: $142,500 · Arts & CultureCHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER+2 more: $20,225 · Arts & CultureFamily Service Society Inc: $205,783 · Human ServicesFamily Service Society …YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $16,930 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER ROCHEST…NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,385 · Human Services+3 more: $14,830 · Human Services+3 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $205,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…CORNING PAINTED POST SCHOOL DISTRICT: $119,467 · OtherCORNING PAINTED P…Individual grant recipient: $40,127 · OtherIndividual grant …THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherTHE ROCKWELL MUSE…+3 more: $9,792 · OtherSOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY: $5,000 · EducationCORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$549,536Human Services$246,928Philanthropy$205,000Other$184,386Education$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRegional Science and Discovery Center: $386,811 over 7y, 43% of budgetFamily Service Society Inc: $205,783 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $205,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER: $142,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $16,930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKWELL MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNING ELMIRA MUSICAL ARTS INC ORCHESTRA OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES: $14,225 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,385 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCORNING-PAINTED POST CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $5,930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC: $4,792 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA of the Southern Tier Inc: $3,900 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCAREFIRST NY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Corning Incorporated …JM McDonald Foundatio…The Anderson Foundati…The Hilliard Foundati…The Triangle FundUnited Way of the Sou…ROTARY INTERNATIONAL …Douglas G Anderson Le…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes IncNY28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Anderson Foundation Inc · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · The Triangle Fund · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Rotary Club of Corning NY · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc 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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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