· Public charity
Capitalize Albany Corporation
The mission of CAPITALIZE ALBANY CORPORATION is to facilitate strategic economic development and stimulate transformative investment throughout the city of albany, making new york's capital a vibrant place to thrive.
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.
The 17 grants below total $308,768 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $351,712 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,944 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRYS-STYLE BEAUTY LLC DBA STUDIO23 | $31,030 |
| VIVA EMPANADAS | $28,000 |
| RECTOR PLACE PARTNERS INC | $25,000 |
| HALO WHOLESALE FOOD COMPANY LLC | $25,000 |
| RECONSTRUCTION HOME VENTURES LLC | $25,000 |
| FOODSCRAPS 360 LLC | $25,000 |
| HOT CRISPY OIL LLC | $25,000 |
| HIVE OF HOPE INC | $23,128 |
| LATIN AMERICAN HOSPITALITY | $22,719 |
| BOMBSHELL MIDTOWN | $17,110 |
| HIIT IT WITH BRITT LLC | $12,585 |
| VIETQUEUE INC | $10,145 |
| ENVISION ARCHITECTS | $10,000 |
| RJS RE HOLDINGS LLC | $10,000 |
| THE SKINNY PANCAKE INC | $7,045 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k 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
- LQLOCH & QUAY LLC2× · 2018–2024 · $72k
- BMBULL MARKETS HOLDING COMPANY LLC2× · 2017–2018 · $39k
- TYTHE YARD2× · 2023–2024 · $27k
Funded once
- TATHE ALBANY DISTILLING COMPANY INCone grant, 2018 · $30k
- RTRDS TRIO INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- FBFIDENS BREWING COMPANY LLCone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
German-American School has been teaching German to children since l892. In the late l9th century the schools students came from German immigrant community and the schools purpose was to teach German literature, history, and culture (in…
Sara curry day school provides primary school (grades kindergarten through grade 5) in the community
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
To operate a bilingual school for children, a preschool for children 3 years of age through grade eight. the values and principles and practices of the school will reflect those of a diverse and multi-cultural school community of cultural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vanderheyden Hall Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gulsum and Gulser Kurd Foundation. 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 68 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.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Central District Management Association · 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 Capitalize Albany Corporation 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.