· Private foundation
Chapel Hill Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | $15,800 |
| ADK MOUNTAIN CLUB | $15,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $11,000 |
| PLATTSBURGH YMCA | $10,000 |
| THERA PETS INC | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,310 |
| MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS | $5,000 |
| PLATTSBURG CARES | $5,000 |
| LAKE GEORGE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PENDRAGON THEATER | $5,000 |
| MOOERS FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK REGIONAL THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PLATTSBURGH YOUTH HOCKEY | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +36%
- BPBRIGID PROJECT INC3× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +21%
- 1C1814 COMMEMORATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SLST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
- JCJCEO CYCLING WITHOUT AGEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
The Adirondack Park Institute raises funds to support program events at the Visitors Interpretive Center in Newcomb, New York.
To develop affordable low income housing and economic development projects in northern new york state.
Founded in 1859, the Ulster County Historical Society (UCHS) is the oldest county historical society in New York State. Housed at the historic Bevier House Museum, UCHS is dedicated to bringing Ulster Countys history alive through dynamic…
Provide nutrition, socialization, recreation, education and health related activities to elderly adults in tupper lake, ny.
The st. lawrence power & equipment museum preserves and teaches the history of how people of the north country of new york lived and how earlier technologies and events helped shape their lives. history comes alive through demonstrations,…
Preservation of Local History
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kent-Delord House Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 47 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 ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK REGIONAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MOOERS FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BRIGID PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds 1814 COMMEMORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HEART WELL HOMESTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH YOUTH HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHAZY YOUTH HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT-DELORD HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
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: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · JM McDonald 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 Chapel Hill 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.
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.
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