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Capital District Library Council for Reference & Research Resources

We partner with members to strengthen library service through education, shared collections, and local connections.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
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02The needRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$43kHealth$32kEducation$25k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,731, the rows itemized in this filing. The $138,039 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $130,308 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.
$7,731
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORIC CHERRY HILL$7,731
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $5k → 10%CRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8k → 10%PEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $6k → 11%MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $6k → 12%HISTORIC CHERRY HILL: $8k → 14%NORTHERN NY LIBRARY NETWORK: $16k → 18%SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 12%MARIA COLLEGE OF ALBANY: $12k → 14%SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF HEALTH SCIENCES - ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $9k → 14%SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF HEALTH SCIENCES - ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $6k → 14%SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF HEALTH SCIENCES - ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $6k → 14%SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF HEALTH SCIENCES - ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $5k → 14%SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF HEALTH SCIENCES - ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $5k → 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 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
Cazenovia Public Library Society Inc

Public library, museum and local history archives

Education
2
Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education
3
Delmar Public Library Commission Inc

Public library services

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4
Centre County Library and Historical Musuem

The centre county library & historical museum is a free community destination providing books, information, internet access, and technology resources to preserve our heritage and promote a lifetime of reading and learning.

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5
Cumberland County Historical Society

Historical library & museums

Arts & Culture
6
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

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7
Newfield Public Library

The library was established to provide public access to various published mediums, including books, periodicals, reference materials, and various audiovisual materials.

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8
Northeast-Millerton Library

Public library

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9
Cheney Library

To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs

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10
The Millicent Library

Public lending library

Education
11
Norwood Public Library

The mission of the norwood public library is to assure effective, expanding free library services for the residents of the library district through educational, informational, and cultural resources and activities.

Education
12
Grafton Community Library

A non for profit providing library services to Grafton NY and surrounding communities

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Cherry Hill; the most unlike its peers is Pember Library and 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $31,899 · OtherALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEMMARIA COLLEGE: $12,390 · OtherMARIA COLLEGEPEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $6,099 · OtherPEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUMNORTHERN NEW YORK RESOURCES CORPORATION: $16,147 · EducationNORTHERN NEW YORK RESOURCES CORP…CRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,500 · EducationCRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $5,239 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARYHISTORIC CHERRY HILL: $7,731 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC CHERRY HILLSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSCHENECTADY COUNTY HIST…MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $5,860 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AN…
Other$50,388Education$28,886Arts & Culture$21,091

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN NEW YORK RESOURCES CORPORATION: $16,147 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMARIA COLLEGE: $12,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $6,099 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $5,860 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $5,239 over 1y, 0.9% 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…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region 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 Capital District Library Council for Reference & Research Resources funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital District Library Council for Reference & Research Resources. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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