· Private foundation
C J Heilig 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $252k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $362k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $175,000 |
| ALL SOULS COMMUNITY CHURC | $87,000 |
| CLINTON CUDAS SWIM TEAM | $50,000 |
| MHVS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| THE FENIMORE FARM AND COUNTRY VILLA | $40,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $25,000 |
| GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE FUND FOR JOHN HOPKINS-NEUROLOGY | $25,000 |
| THE FUND FOR JOHN HOPKINS-UROLOGY | $25,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLEN | $17,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PARKS | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +141%
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +193%
- FOFriends of Bassett Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- 5P53 PIONEER ST - ORGANIZATION TO BE NAMED LATERone grant, 2021 · $40k
- CFCOOPERSTOWN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCEone grant, 2023 · $36k
- TCTHE COOPERSTOWN ONEONTA AND OTSEGO COUNTY FILM PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
OCCA is dedicated to promoting the enjoyment and sustainable use of Otsego County's natural resources through education, advocacy, resource management, research, planning and practice.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Forum for community concerns
Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.
Provision of health care services to residents of schoharie county and the surrounding region.
Compassionately advocate for a more humane community for animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Parks. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 78 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 AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AFGHAN STRAY ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO 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: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · The Scriven Foundation · The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · Thomas Frank Mullet Foundation · Willies Family Foundation · Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · 8187770 the Eggleston Foundation Co Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP
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 C J Heilig 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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.