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Capital Communications Cares Foundation

Financial support for education endeavors, community enrichment and children's causes within the capital district area.

$901k
Granted FY2022
49
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$702kHealth$530kEducation$412kYouth Development$226kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kCommunity Improvement$126kHousing & Shelter$120kFood & Nutrition$76kOther$0
02FY2022 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $726,862, the rows itemized in this filing. The $900,737 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,875 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $480k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES$100,000
BLUELIGHT DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC$50,000
THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC$35,000
ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF ALBANY$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN NEW YORK$20,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE$20,000
VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC$20,000
NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY OF SERVICES$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK$15,000
ALLIANCE FOR BETTER HEALTH (HEALTHY ALLIANCE INC)$15,000
CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA$15,000
IPH (INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS)$15,000
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING (SEAT) CENTER$15,000
COCOA HOUSE$14,762
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 (FY17–22, $613k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COCOA HOUSE: $26k → 12%BUS STOP CLUB: $8k → 11%COCOA HOUSE: $15k → 12%BUS STOP CLUB: $5k → 11%AIM SERVICES INC: $10k → 7%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $35k → 12%MOM STARTS HERE: $15k → 11%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN: $16k → 12%BUS STOP CLUB: $6k → 14%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN: $10k → 12%BUS STOP CLUB: $6k → 14%SOUTH END CHILDRENS CAF: $6k → 14%THE BUS STOP CLUB INC: $10k → 11%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES: $96k → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES: $36k → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY OF SERVICES: $20k → 14%THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC: $8k → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $94k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $23k → 14%COLONIE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN NEW YORK: $20k → 14%CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA: $15k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $12k → 14%YMCA: $12k → 14%COLONIE SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $10k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY: $10k → 14%BRING ON THE SPECTRUM: $9k → 14%LIVING RESOUCRCES: $15k → 14%LIVING RESOUCRCES: $8k → 14%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 38 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
35

Total granted

$1.8M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NR
    NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $181k · revenue +14%
  • VH
    VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $151k · revenue +70%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2018–2022 · $114k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $48k · revenue +0%
  • SH
    SETON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
Transitional Services of New York Inc

The agency operates community residences and supported housing programs and provides other outpatient, vocational rehabilitation & clinical services to individuals with mental illness.

Human Services
3
Seneca Health Services Inc

To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.

—
4
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
5
Accesscny Inc

Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…

Health
6
Southern Tier Independence Center Inc

Stic's mission is to shape a world in which people with disabilities are empowered to live fully integrated lives in their communities. we offer assistance, advocacy and services to children and adults with all disabilities, increasing…

Human Services
7
Advance Care Alliance of Ny Inc

Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…

Human Services
8
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
9
Coordinated Care Services Inc

Ccsi's mission is to inspire innovation in practice by providing essental business services in partnership with organizations that improve lives and strengthen communities.

—
10
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
11
Access Supports for Living Inc

Our mission is to help people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, and our first priority is those who live with the challenges associated with behavioral health issues and developmental disabilities.

Human Services
12
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Service of Schenectady; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

58 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. 58 of the 102 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVANDERHEYDEN HALL INC: $150,813 · OtherVANDERHEYDEN HALL INCST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $74,983 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY: $48,804 · Other+60 more: $873,136 · Other+60 moreNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $180,837 · Human ServicesNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $114,413 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416): $72,418 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $60,500 · Human ServicesTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INCCOCOA HOUSE INC: $40,461 · Human ServicesCOCOA HOUSE INCTHE BUS STOP CLUB INC: $33,886 · Human ServicesTHE BUS STOP CLUB INCCOLONIE SENIOR SERVICES CENTERS INC: $30,389 · Human ServicesLIVING RESOURCES CORPORATION: $22,500 · Human Services+6 more: $57,600 · Human Services+6 moreCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $100,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DISAB…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST NEW YORK: $74,791 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUN…American Heart Association Inc: $55,735 · HealthAmerican Heart A…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $46,950 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DHICKS STRONG INC: $20,440 · HealthELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $47,600 · Health+5 moreBLUELIGHT DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $21,395 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $25,500 · EducationThe RED Bookshelf Inc: $22,500 · EducationSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $12,953 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY: $10,000 · EducationFAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE OF SCHENECTADY: $10,000 · EducationFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $33,183 · Food & NutritionSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $7,200 · Food & NutritionARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $48,087 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,407,736Human Services$613,004Health$395,516Housing & Shelter$91,395Education$80,953Food & Nutrition$50,383Arts & Culture$48,087

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 budgetNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $180,837 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetVANDERHEYDEN HALL INC: $150,813 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $114,413 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $74,983 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST NEW YORK: $74,791 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416): $72,418 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $60,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBLUELIGHT DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $60,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,735 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY: $48,804 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $48,087 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $46,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOA HOUSE INC: $40,461 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE BUS STOP CLUB INC: $33,886 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $33,183 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $31,943 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLONIE SENIOR SERVICES CENTERS INC: $30,389 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING RESOURCES CORPORATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe RED Bookshelf Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $21,395 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHICKS STRONG INC: $20,440 over 2y, 15% of budgetMission Accomplished Transition Services Inc: $20,121 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSARATOGA CENTER FOR THE FAMILY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL ROOTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $18,628 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDENS ROSE FOUNDATION: $16,300 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMOM STARTS HERE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $12,953 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALBANY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRISE HOUSING AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PETER'S HEALTH PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIM SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIN OUR OWN VOICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE OF SCHENECTADY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF SARATOGA SPRINGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTO LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…United Way of the Gre…Capital District Phys…Sunmark Charitable Co…Review FoundationMvp Health Plan IncPioneer Bank Charitab…JM McDonald Foundatio…William Gundry Brough…The Troy Savings Bank…Neil Jane William Est…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY94.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Review Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc

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 Capital Communications Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital Communications Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Capital Communications Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Capital Communications Cares Foundation 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 102 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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