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Cloudsplitter Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k238 grants · $596k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $813k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENDRAGON THEATRE | $215,000 |
| ADIRONDACK HEALTH | $187,500 |
| PENDRAGON THEATRE | $125,000 |
| PLAY ADK | $75,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| TRUDEAU INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $45,000 |
| PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| WILDERNESS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CANARY IMPACT LAB | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN FOREST CENTER | $25,000 |
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
194 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 137 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k 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
- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +4%
- PIPENDRAGON INC2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +190% · 39% of their budget
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION5× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +677%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
- SRSaint Regis Mohawk Tribe (Childcare Excellence)one grant, 2022 · $66k
- NFNORTHERN FOREST ATLAS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +38% · 73% of their budget
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 provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
The Taconic Plateau Foundation's mission is to preserve wilderness areas of the Taconic Plateau in a natural state for the enjoyment of present and future generations, providing access for recreational, educational and research…
LARAC's mission is to enrich the quality of life in Warren, Washington, and Norhtern Saratoga Counties. LARAC promotes, develops, coordinates and provides arts activities and services.
The mission of the Organization is to conserve working farmland and promote a greater appreciation for the agricultural and forested lands and their associated natural resources that enrich our communities and connect future generations to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eddy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
226 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. 226 of the 554 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENDRAGON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD & FORK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS GUARDIANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds ADKACTIONORG INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY ADK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLUSEED STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN FOREST ATLAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Cloudsplitter Foundation 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.
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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