· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $209,557 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $223,561 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,004 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of your 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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BPBinghamton Philharmonic Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +4%
- EPEndicott Performing Arts Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +16%
- GTGoodwill Theatre Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TCTHE CIDERMILL PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $12k
- TAThe Art Mission & Theaterone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture 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…
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
Productions
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
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…
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…
Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers
To provide exceptional arts education and make art accessable and exciting to our community.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc and 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.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 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 ↗
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 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
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 Broome County Arts Council 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.