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Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2026still arriving
22
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Youth Development$215kEducation$188kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$74kRecreation & Sports$36kFood & Nutrition$14kEnvironment$14kScience & Tech$1k
02FY2026 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k21 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION UNITE$13,000
PERFECT TEN AFTERSCHOOL$9,000
HUDSON AREA LIBRARY$8,000
HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC$6,000
HUDSON DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$5,000
GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD$5,000
HUDSON HALL$5,000
FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH$5,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NE NY$5,000
COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER$4,000
COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE$4,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF CC$4,000
PHILMONT PUBIC LIBRARY$3,500
PS 21 INC (PERFORMANCE SPACES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY)$3,000
CLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $5k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $5k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $4k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $4k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $3k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$617k · 25 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$617k
$13k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • PT
    PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $50k · revenue +93%
  • HP
    HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC
    7× · 2019–2026 · $37k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $25k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • HP
    HUDSON POP WARNER FOOTBALL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BE
    BARD EARLY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Hudson City School District Booster Club Inc

Positive support and financial assistance for extra curricular programs of the hudson city school district through various fund raising activities.

Education
2
Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health
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3
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

—
4
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
5
The Hudson School

To provide intellectually inquisitive students in grades 5-12 with a rigorous and relevant collegepreparatory education that inspires thinking and intellectual risktaking with the goal of developing compassionate, responsible, principled…

—
6
The Institute of Music for Children Inc

To engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process.

Arts & Culture
7
Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

Human Services
8
The Hudson Players Guild Inc

Theater productions and education

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9
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
10
Ymca of Central and Northern Westchester Ny Inc

The ymca strengthen's the community by providing quality programs that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we are a y without walls model. as a community based service provider, we remain flexible -…

—
11
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music

The mission of the brooklyn conservatory of music is to transformlives and build community through the expressive, educational andtherapeutic powers of music.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony Project Hudson Inc; the most unlike its peers is Columbia Children's Center Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION UNITE: $99,000 · OtherOPERATION UNITEHUDSON AREA LIBRARY: $78,000 · OtherHUDSON AREA LIBRARYHUDSON DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS: $40,000 · OtherHUDSON DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSCLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY: $36,300 · OtherCLAVERACK FREE LIBRARYHUDSON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $36,000 · OtherHUDSON DAY CARE CENTER INCHUDSON HALL: $35,000 · OtherHUDSON HALLPHILMONT PUBIC LIBRARY: $18,500 · Other+15 more: $58,875 · Other+15 morePERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPERFECT TEN…FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF …HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONY PRO…COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA CO…HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON OPER…+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesPLAYGROUND GOLF FOUNDATION: $16,500 · Recreation & SportsMORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $14,000 · Food & NutritionCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentBARD COLLEGE: $8,000 · Education
Other$401,675Youth Development$67,000Arts & Culture$66,500Human Services$42,500Recreation & Sports$27,500Food & Nutrition$14,000Environment$13,500Education$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 10y, 2.5% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $37,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetHUDSON DAY CARE CENTER INC: $36,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetCOLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $17,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetPLAYGROUND GOLF FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAYGROUND GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTIFUL RACKET INC ↗

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.

Hrbt FoundationNY28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hrbt Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Eutopia Foundation · The Ackerman Foundation Inc · Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust · T Backer Fund Inc · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund 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 Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc 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 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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