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Broome County Arts Council at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Broome County Arts Council

To promote a thriving arts community, essential to the quality of life in broome county ny and advance the awareness and value of the arts through advocacy, fundraising, grant making, services, and programs.

$224k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$1.5M
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $209,557, the rows itemized in this filing. The $223,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,004 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$22,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$357k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC$50,000
TRI-CITIES OPERA$47,500
ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC$41,000
THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC$22,000
ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$22,000
BUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART$10,557
LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC$9,000
DISCOVERY CENTER OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $25k → 20%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $22k → 20%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $22k → 20%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20k → 20%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20k → 20%DISCOVERY CENTER OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $10k → 20%ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20k → 20%DISCOVERY CENTER OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $10k → 20%Endicott Performing Arts: $16k → 20%DISCOVERY CENTER OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $8k → 20%Cider Mill Playhouse: $12k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $53k → 20%Tri-Cities Opera: $52k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $50k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $48k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $47k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $40k → 20%TRI-CITIES OPERA: $40k → 20%BUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $11k → 20%BUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $10k → 20%BUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $10k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $60k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $60k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $60k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $60k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $60k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $59k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $59k → 20%Roberson Memorial Inc: $56k → 20%Binghamton Philharmonic: $55k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $54k → 20%BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC: $50k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $50k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $45k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $22k → 20%ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC: $41k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $20k → 20%The Art Mission & Theater: $12k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $19k → 20%LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $10k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $17k → 20%LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $9k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $17k → 20%LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $9k → 20%THE GOODWILL THEATRE INC: $16k → 20%LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $5k → 20%The Goodwill Theater: $12k → 20%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • BP
    Binghamton Philharmonic Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +4%
  • EP
    Endicott Performing Arts Center Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +16%
  • GT
    Goodwill Theatre Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CIDERMILL PLAYHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • TA
    The Art Mission & Theater
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
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
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
2
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
4
The Saco River Theatre

The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.

Arts & Culture
5
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Taos Center for the Arts

The Taos Center for the Arts draws on its history as a dynamic leader for arts collaboration and partnership. Originally established by a group of working artists in 1953 and situated in the heart of Taos, the TCA serves and engages…

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8
Schenectady Civic Players Inc

To foster, promote and nurture the natural talents of those citizens interested in play production, stagecraft and arts management; to stimulate appreciation and participation in suporting high quality theatrical prodcutions for the…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Upstate Center for the Arts

To provide exceptional arts education and make art accessable and exciting to our community.

—
11
Roberson Museum and Science Center

The museum is a regional museum of art, science, and local history serving the upper susquehanna valley region of ny and pa and is accreditted by the american alliance of museums, a member of the association of science and technology…

Arts & Culture
12
The Palace Performing Arts Center Inc

To operate the historic palace theater a 2,800-seat cultural and entertainment facility that is located in albany, ny. the organization works to organize cultural and entertainment events presenting affordable, diverse, quality, popular…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bundy Museum of History and Art. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Binghamton Philharmonic Inc: $399,000 · Arts & CultureBinghamton Philharmonic IncTRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC: $329,550 · Arts & CultureTRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INCEndicott Performing Arts Center Inc: $144,786 · Arts & CultureEndicott Performing Arts Center IncGoodwill Theatre Inc: $122,986 · Arts & CultureGoodwill Theatre Inc+2 more: $58,057 · Arts & Culture+2 moreROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $370,000 · OtherROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBE…+2 more: $24,400 · Other+2 moreLUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $33,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,054,379Other$394,400Philanthropy$33,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBinghamton Philharmonic Inc: $399,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER: $370,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC: $329,550 over 8y, 11% of budgetEndicott Performing Arts Center Inc: $144,786 over 8y, 12% of budgetGoodwill Theatre Inc: $122,986 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetLUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $33,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $30,557 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetDiscovery Center of the So Tier Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CIDERMILL PLAYHOUSE INC: $12,200 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

  • Who funds Binghamton Philharmonic Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROBERSON MEMORIAL INC DBA ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds Endicott Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUNDY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
  • Who funds Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CIDERMILL PLAYHOUSE INC ↗

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…George a and Margaret…The Victor& Esther Ro…Ahearn Foundation (Pf…Miller S & Adelaide S…Conrad & Virginia Kle…Tioga Downs Regional …The Tsb Foundation IncAmazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for South Central New York IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · The Victor& Esther Rozen Foundation Inc · Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) · Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Broome County Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Broome County Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $221k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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