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Cloudsplitter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
274
Grants FY2024
149
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$215,000
Organizations funded a year
102 to 149
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$33M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Cloudsplitter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving230$1.8M60%
FY2023149$1.2M37%
FY2022147$1.7M40%
FY2021141$1.4M39%
FY2020110$1.0M35%
FY2019118$1.1M41%
FY2018102$1.2M54%
FY2017105$1.5Mn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.3MArts & Culture$1.9MEnvironment$1.1MEducation$877kHuman Services$876kYouth Development$710kPhilanthropy$653kRecreation & Sports$511kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Adirondack Experience Inc$490,0007n/a
Trudeau Institute Inc$309,23361%
Paul Smiths College$263,24860%
Pendragon Inc$250,000239%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$190,00052%
Open Space Institute Inc$163,75052%
Adirondack Explorer Inc$158,75084%
Field & Fork Network$150,00034%
Historic Saranac Lake$122,335515%
Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated$111,75087%
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All grantees of Cloudsplitter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Adirondack Experience Inc$490,0007n/a
Trudeau Institute Inc$309,23361%
Paul Smiths College$263,24860%
Pendragon Inc$250,000239%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$190,00052%
Open Space Institute Inc$163,75052%
Adirondack Explorer Inc$158,75084%
Field & Fork Network$150,00034%
Historic Saranac Lake$122,335515%
Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated$111,75087%
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts$109,82555%
Saranac Lake Civic Center Inc$109,00033%
Little Peaks Inc$105,00028%
The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc$105,00032%
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc$95,00051%
Northern Lights Guardianship Inc$93,236511%
Champlain Area Trails Inc$92,00066%
Mercy Care for the Adirondacks Inc$84,15083%
Adkactionorg Inc$80,000230%
Play Adk Inc$75,000118%
Housing Assistance Program of Essex County Inc$69,00031%
The Adirondack Council Inc$65,00051%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$65,00030%
Hudson Headwaters Health Network$60,00020%
Bluseed Studios Inc$58,750720%
St Lawrence University$56,00050%
Whallonsburg Grange Hall Inc$55,935721%
Ecumenical Council of Saranac Lake Inc$53,103816%
Canary Impact Lab Inc$50,00021%
St Elizabeth Community Health Support$50,00011%
Northern Forest Atlas Foundation Inc$50,000173%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$50,00010%
John Brown Lives Inc$46,750614%
Adirondack Center for Writing Inc$46,12586%
Ticonderoga Area Backpack Program Inc$44,50059%
Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad$43,35072%
Adirondack Hamlets to Huts Inc$42,50075%
Adirondack Land Trust Inc$41,00033%
National Immigration Law Center$40,00010%
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks$38,75070%
The Lake Placid Sinfonietta Inc$38,25072%
Joint Council for Economic Opportunity of Clinton and Franklin Counties Inc$38,00030%
Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue Inc$38,00056%
Eagle Island Inc$37,50061%
Upper Jay Art Center$37,45089%
Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation$35,50053%
Ticonderoga Reviltalization Alliance$35,00023%
Northern Forest Center Inc$32,75080%
High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care In$32,75080%
The Strand Center for the Arts$32,50034%
Seagle Music Colony Inc D/B/A Seagle Festival$32,00051%
The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Inc$32,00062%
Indian Lake Theater Inc$31,86876%
Tupper Arts Inc$31,000212%
Craigardan Inc$30,00032%
Open Door Mission Inc$30,0002n/a
Lake George Land Conservancy Inc$30,00021%
Center for Constitutional Rights$30,0001n/a
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc$29,75060%
Luzerne Music Center Inc$29,30041%
Brigid Project Inc$27,700750%
Pride of Ticonderoga Inc$27,00023%
Glens Falls Area Youth Center Inc$27,00044%
North Country Children's Museum$26,00034%
Franklin County Economic Development Corporation$26,00014%
Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation Inc$25,85039%
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Inc$25,50025%
Keene Valley Library Association$25,00013%
Eddy Foundation$25,0001n/a
Wilderness Health Care Foundation Inc$25,00013%
Homestead Development Corporation$25,00013%
Adirondack Economic Development Corp$22,00022%
Protect the Adirondacks Inc$20,26032%
Alice Hyde Medical Center$20,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00020%
Canton Day Care Center Inc$20,00013%
American Immigration Council$20,00010%
Colby Foundation$20,0001n/a
Plattsburgh Community Housing Inc$20,0001n/a
The Nature Walks Conservation Society$20,000119%
Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc$20,00020%
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc$18,50052%
Plattsburgh Cares Inc$18,5003n/a
Adirondack Film Society Inc$18,00076%
Tri-Lakes Center for Independent Living Inc$18,00061%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$18,00050%
The Depot Theatre Inc$17,50051%
North Country Home Services Inc$17,40010%
Saranac Lake Artworks Inc$17,25059%
Schroon Lake Association$17,0003n/a
Adirondack Folk School Inc$17,00025%
Nccc Foundation Inc$16,75031%
Saranac Lake Youth Center Inc$15,25074%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Literacy Volunteers of Clinton Essex and Franklin Counties Inc$15,000213%
Plattsburgh College Foundation Inc$15,00030%
St Lawrence County Arts Council$15,00021%
Northwood School$15,00020%
Snowslip Foundation$15,000321%
USA Nordic Sport$15,00010%
Essex Food Hub Inc$15,00022%
North Country Community College Foundation Inc$13,00021%
Ticonderoga Festival Guild Inc$12,500416%
Chazy Youth Hockey Inc$12,50014%
United Way of the Adirondack Region Inc$12,50031%
Tannery Pond Center Inc$12,50044%
Stratton Mountain School$12,50030%
We Are Instrumental Inc$11,500314%
Adirondack North Country Association Inc$11,20030%
Adirondack Research Consortium$11,12576%
Creative Healing Connections Inc$11,000510%
Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center Inc$11,00016%
Lake Placid Outing Club Inc$11,00063%
Blue Mountain Center$11,00020%
Community Lunchbox$10,8006n/a
North Country School Inc$10,69130%
Lake PlacidNorth Elba Historical Society Inc$10,60044%
Saranac Lake Central School District$10,5002n/a
Central Adirondack Partnership for the 21st Century Inc$10,00013%
Heart Well Homestead Inc$10,00018%
Adirondack Housing Development Corp$10,000121%
Family YMCA of the Glens Falls Area Inc$10,00010%
Saranac Lake Local Development Corporation$10,0002n/a
Adirondack Marathon Inc$10,00026%
Almanzo & Laura Ingalls Wilder Assoc$10,000113%
Health Workforce Collaborative Inc$10,000118%
Lake George Music Festival$10,00052%
Adirondack Community Action Programs Inc$10,00010%
Old Forge Library Association Inc$10,00013%
Healing Grace Perinatal Hospice Inc$10,0003n/a
Pro Publica Inc$10,00010%
Adirondack Treks Inc$9,8953n/a
Ballard Park Foundation Ltd$9,25078%
Silver Bay Association for Christian Conferences and Training$9,00020%
New York Newspapers Foundation Inc$8,25038%
Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership Inc$8,00034%
St Bernard's School Inc$8,00010%
National Park Foundation$8,00040%
Johnsburg Historical Socierty$8,00026%
Essex County Arts Council Inc$7,50064%
Digital Abraham Inc$7,5001n/a
Malone Veterans Field Foundation$7,5001n/a
Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications$7,00020%
Aim Services Inc$7,00020%
Adirondack Public Observatory Inc$7,0002n/a
Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks Inc$7,00010%
First Night Saranac Lake$6,80044%
Americares Foundation Inc$6,75060%
Westport Library Association$6,19126%
Paine Memorial Free Library$6,00032%
Parks & Trails New York Inc$6,00020%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$6,00030%
The Adirondack Carousel Inc$5,85085%
Adirondack Community Outreach Center Inc$5,75061%
The Fort Ticonderoga Association$5,37580%
St Eustace Episcopal Church$5,0001n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$5,00010%
Collaborative Orthotic and Prosthetic Care Alliance$5,00017%
North Country Ministry$5,0001n/a
1 for the Planet Inc$5,00010%
Police Activities League of Massena Inc$5,00011%
North Country Healthy Heart Network Inc$5,00011%
Chilson Volunteer Fire Department Inc Attn Wendy Davis$5,00014%
New York News Publishers Assoc Inc$5,00011%
Owls Head Mountain View Community Connection Inc$5,0001n/a
St Armand Veterans Memorial Park Task Force Inc$5,000112%
North Country Workforce Partnership$5,00011%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Southern Adirondacks Inc$4,50011%
World Awareness Children's Museum$4,50021%
AIDS Council of Northeastern New York$4,50020%
The Salvation Army$4,2501n/a
Lake Placid Olympic Museum$4,00073%
Accessible Adirondack Tourism$4,0001n/a
Saranac Lake Adult Center Inc$4,00014%
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc$4,00010%
Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club$4,00010%
Anderson Falls Heritage Society$4,0002n/a
North Country Health and Wellness Inc$4,0002n/a
Saranac Lake Free Library$3,87580%
Seneca Waterways Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$3,74020%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$3,00010%
National Parks Conservation Association$3,00030%
Talking Rivers Inc$3,0001n/a
Operation Warm Inc$3,00010%
Adirondack Park Institute Inc$3,00033%
Upper Hudson Trails Alliance$3,0002n/a
Family Services Association of Glens Falls Inc$3,00011%
Caroga Arts Collective Inc$3,00010%
Charles R Wood Theater Inc$3,00010%
Adirondack Institute$3,0001n/a
Lewis County Historical Society$3,00013%
Prep for Prep$3,00030%
North Country Life Flight Inc$2,87560%
Families First Inc$2,75031%
Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station Inc$2,50018%
Ourstorybridge Inc$2,50014%
Malone Adult Center Inc$2,50014%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Ogdensburg$2,50010%
Disability Empowher Network Inc$2,50011%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,50050%
Friends of the Ballston Spa Public Library Inc$2,50012%
St Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council Inc$2,50010%
Friends of St Regis Mountain Fire Tower$2,0001n/a
Families First Inc$2,00020%
Adirondack Theatre Festival Inc$2,00010%
Tupper Lake History Museum$2,0001n/a
The Arts Guild of Old Forge Inc$2,00010%
Elizabethtown Social Center Inc$2,00010%
Lake George Arts Project Inc$2,00011%
Adirondack Inclusion Movement Inc$2,000112%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$2,00020%
Appleby Foundation Inc$2,00011%
Songs at Mirror Lake Inc$1,75022%
Nipper Knolls Equine Center Inc$1,50016%
1814 Commemoration Inc$1,50012%
Bolton Free Library$1,43711%
Cranberry Lake North Shore Hub Inc$1,30014%
Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department$1,15060%
Community String Orchestra of the Adirondacks Inc$1,0001n/a
The Student Conservation Association Inc$1,00010%
Keeseville Community Development Corporation$1,0001n/a
Families First in Essex County Inc$1,00020%
Heritage Christian Services Inc$1,00010%
Wadhams Free Library$1,0001n/a
Rainbow Lake Association$1,0001n/a
Chilson Community Founders Association$1,0001n/a
Center for Disability Servicesinc$1,00010%
Saranac Lake Interfaith Food Pantry$1,00011%
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc$1,00010%
Environmental Advocates Ny Inc$1,00010%
Village Improvement Society of Saranac Lake$1,00024%
Concerns of Police Survivors Inc$1,00010%
The Mooncatcher Project Inc$1,00010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,00010%
McGivney Community Center Inc$1,00010%
Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country Inc$1,00010%
Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce$1,00011%
Paradox Lake Association Inc$1,00011%
Gardenshare Inc$87510%
Church World Service Inc$75020%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$60040%
Ticonderoga Arts Inc$60012%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$50010%
Action Inc$50010%
East Branch Friends of the Arts$5001n/a
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$50010%
Young Life$50010%
Nrdc Action Fund Inc$50010%
Saranac Lake 3p Inc$5001n/a
Adirondack Wildlife Inc$5001n/a
Central Park Conservancy Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 301 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cloudsplitter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrudeau Institute Inc: $309,233 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPaul Smiths College: $263,248 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPendragon Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetNortheast Wilderness Trust Corporation: $190,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetOpen Space Institute Inc: $163,750 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAdirondack Explorer Inc: $158,750 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetField & Fork Network: $150,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHistoric Saranac Lake: $122,335 over 5y, 15% of budgetAusable Freshwater Center Incorporated: $111,750 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetAdirondack Lakes Center for the Arts: $109,825 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSaranac Lake Civic Center Inc: $109,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLittle Peaks Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetThe Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAdirondack Mountain Club Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNorthern Lights Guardianship Inc: $93,236 over 5y, 11% of budgetChamplain Area Trails Inc: $92,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetMercy Care for the Adirondacks Inc: $84,150 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetAdkactionorg Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetPlay Adk Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHousing Assistance Program of Essex County Inc: $69,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Adirondack Council Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAll Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHudson Headwaters Health Network: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBluseed Studios Inc: $58,750 over 7y, 20% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhallonsburg Grange Hall Inc: $55,935 over 7y, 21% of budgetEcumenical Council of Saranac Lake Inc: $53,103 over 8y, 16% of budgetCanary Impact Lab Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth Community Health Support: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorthern Forest Atlas Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Brown Lives Inc: $46,750 over 6y, 14% of budgetAdirondack Center for Writing Inc: $46,125 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTiconderoga Area Backpack Program Inc: $44,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetSaranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad: $43,350 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetAdirondack Hamlets to Huts Inc: $42,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetAdirondack Land Trust Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNatural History Museum of the Adirondacks: $38,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lake Placid Sinfonietta Inc: $38,250 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetJoint Council for Economic Opportunity of Clinton and Franklin Counties Inc: $38,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCrane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetEagle Island Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUpper Jay Art Center: $37,450 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetAdirondack Center for Loon Conservation: $35,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTiconderoga Reviltalization Alliance: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $32,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHigh Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care In: $32,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Adirondack FoundationNY185.9× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Adirondack Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Rogers-Carroll Family Foundation · Staritch Foundation Inc · Henry Uihlein II and Mildred a Uihlein Foundation · Glens Falls Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation 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.

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How do I get to Cloudsplitter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cloudsplitter Foundation 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.

About Cloudsplitter Foundation

How much does Cloudsplitter Foundation give?
Cloudsplitter Foundation reported 274 grants totaling $1,843,143 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 102 and 149 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cloudsplitter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (17%), Environment (9%).
Who are Cloudsplitter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Adirondack Experience Inc ($490k), Trudeau Institute Inc ($309k), Paul Smiths College ($263k).
Does Cloudsplitter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cloudsplitter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cloudsplitter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Adirondack Foundation, Charles R Wood Foundation, Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun.
Where is Cloudsplitter Foundation based?
Cloudsplitter Foundation is based in NY.

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 554 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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