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City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc

The mission of the city federation of women's organizations is to support women and girls and to act as a catalyst for the improvement of the lives of women and girls in tompkins county, thus making a contribution to the community as a whole.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$93kEducation$79kHealth$36kEnvironment$30kEmployment$29kPhilanthropy$21kYouth Development$17kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$15kOther$155k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOAVES & FISHES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY$15,000
ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE$10,000
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$7,500
FREE SCIENCE WORKSHOP$6,500
WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITY CENTER$6,000
ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES$6,000
THE CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$5,000
FAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP$5,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
TOMPKINS COUNTY WORKERS CENTER$1,000
WEST VILLAGENO MAS LAGRIMAS$1,000
VILLAGE AT ITHACA$1,000
VARNA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VILLAGE AT ITHACA: $16k → 16%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $10k → 16%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $6k → 16%VILLAGE AT ITHACA: $5k → 16%VILLAGE AT ITHACA: $5k → 16%ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $5k → 16%GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER: $5k → 16%GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER: $5k → 16%FINGER LAKES TOY LIBRARY: $5k → 16%FINGER LAKES TOY LIBRARY: $5k → 16%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $5k → 16%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $5k → 16%ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES: $4k → 16%FINGER LAKES TOY LIBRARY: $4k → 16%VILLAGE AT ITHACA: $3k → 16%VILLAGE AT ITHACA: $1k → 16%VILLAGE OF ITHACA: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$380k · 23 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$380k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

78%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +58%
  • IH
    ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%
  • TV
    THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • TC
    TOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -34%
  • RT
    RUNNING TO PLACES THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Tompkins Community Action Inc

Tompkins community action, inc. (tcaction) "believes an active community can produce powerful change". located in upstate new york's finger lakes region, tcaction has served the community for over 55 years, implementing programs that…

Education
2
The History Center in Tompkins County Inc

The History Center in Tompkins County, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and encourage access to its unique collections, while designing learning experiences and services that create opportunities for people to…

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3
Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…

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4
Tompkins County Spca

The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…

Animals
5
Go Ithaca

Provide transportation benefits, discounts and resources to developers, employers and individuals communting to and from Tompkins County to support people in commuting and getting around town in a reliable, sustainable and healthly way.

Community Improvement
6
Workers' Center of Central New York Inc

Grassroots Organization focused on workplace and economic justice. Through policy advocacy, leadership development, organizing, and popular education, they support and empower low-wage workers from all backgrounds to combat workplace…

Human Services
7
Ithaka Land Inc

Our mission is to help people escape the cycle of poverty and homelessness, secure stable long-term housing, and achieve a self-directed vision for their lives. We achieve this mission by providing affordable, transitional housing combined…

Environment
8
Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc

To strengthen the arts in Tompkins County by supporting artists and arts groups, ensuring equitable access to the arts, and cultivating a creative culture that reflects our communitys diversity.

Arts & Culture
9
Historic Ithaca Inc

To promote the value and enhancement of our historic buildings and neighborhoods in the city of ithaca and tompkins county through education, advocacy and action.

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10
Cortland County Child Development - Day Care Program Inc

To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County

Human Services
11
Suny Cortland Child Care Center Inc

The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…

Human Services
12
Ithaca Community Recovery

Provide daily meeting space for 12 step recovery programs and related groups. we estimate between 350 and 400 people use the facility daily in their pursuit of recovery from addiction to alcohol and other dangerous drug

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithaca Welcomes Refugees Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number12%0%<5yr10%8%5–10yr33%21%10–20yr14%46%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr20%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value12%0%<5yr10%17%5–10yr33%10%10–20yr14%45%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr20%8%55yr+

The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
5%
47/953

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $39,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONSouthside Community Center Inc — $17,500 · OtherSouthside Community Center IncIndividual grant recipient — $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOFFENDER AID AND RESTORATION — $10,000 · OtherRUNNING TO PLACES THEATRE — $9,000 · OtherTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $8,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherTHE LEARNING WEB INC — $10,500 · OtherLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc — $15,000 · OtherLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County IncTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION…SECOND WIND COTTAGES INC — $8,000 · Other+15 more — $51,130 · Other+15 moreTHE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC — $31,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE AT ITHACA…ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC — $30,120 · Human ServicesITHACA WELCOMES REFUG…FINGER LAKES TOY LIBRARY INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesFINGER LAKES TOY LIBR…GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER ITHACA ACTIVI…ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesITHACA COMMUNITY CHIL…THE ADVOCACY CENTER OF TOMPKINS COUNTY — $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $29,000 · EducationTHE CHILD DEVELOPM…FREE SCIENCE INC — $26,500 · EducationFREE SCIENCE INCTOMPKINS LEARNING PARTNERS INC — $16,110 · EducationTOMPKINS LEARNING …FAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP — $7,000 · EducationFAMILY READING PAR…ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthIthaca Childrens Garden Inc — $15,328 · EnvironmentFINGER LAKES REUSE INC — $14,840 · EnvironmentDISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC — $25,870 · EmploymentSOCIAL VENTURES INC CO JEFF FURMAN — $2,525 · EmploymentTOMPKINS COUNTY WORKERS CENTER INC — $1,000 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $10,729 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$201,680Human Services$93,120Education$78,610Health$36,000Environment$30,168Employment$29,395Philanthropy$20,729

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $39,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC — $31,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC — $30,120 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFREE SCIENCE INC — $26,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetDISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC — $25,870 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSouthside Community Center Inc — $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTOMPKINS LEARNING PARTNERS INC — $16,110 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetIthaca Childrens Garden Inc — $15,328 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFINGER LAKES REUSE INC — $14,840 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFINGER LAKES TOY LIBRARY INC — $13,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $10,729 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEARNING WEB INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND WIND COTTAGES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP — $7,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKHUBA INTERNATIONAL — $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRUNNING TO PLACES THEATRE COMPANY LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetITHACA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADVOCACY CENTER OF TOMPKINS COUNTY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURES INC CO JEFF FURMAN — $2,525 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVARNA COMMUNITY ASSOC — $1,880 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOMPKINS COUNTY WORKERS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Legacy Foundation of …Park Foundation IncUnited Way of Tompkin…Social Service League…Tompkins Charitable G…Triad Foundation IncJM McDonald Foundatio…Foundation for Jewish…Norathco FoundationThe Tsb Foundation IncBen & Jerry's Foundat…
Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY57.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Norathco Foundation · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc

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 City Federation of Women's Organizations 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    15report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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