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.

Cloudsplitter Foundation

Cloudsplitter Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Cloudsplitter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

274

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$215k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% 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

02FY2024 · 274 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k238 grants · $596k
$10k–50k28 grants · $435k
$50k–250k8 grants · $813k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PENDRAGON THEATRE	$215,000
ADIRONDACK HEALTH	$187,500
PENDRAGON THEATRE	$125,000
PLAY ADK	$75,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL	$60,000
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$50,000
ST ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER	$50,000
TRUDEAU INSTITUTE	$50,000
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$45,000
PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE	$40,000
THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION	$30,000
CANARY IMPACT LAB	$25,000
WILDERNESS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$25,000
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER	$25,000
ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION	$24,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.3M · 194 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

194

221

Total granted

$8.3M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+23%

Still filing today

68%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

PS
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +4%
PI
PENDRAGON INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +190% · 39% of their budget
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +677%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $200k
SR
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (Childcare Excellence)
one grant, 2022 · $66k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $50k

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.

The Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History

To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.

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Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce Inc

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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Adirondack Ski Touring Council Inc

To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.

Youth Development

Catskill Center for Conservation & Development Inc

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…

Environment

Newcomb Historical Museum

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.

Arts & Culture

The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Adirondack League Club

To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.

Recreation & Sports

Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society

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Upper Hudson Northern Catskill Natural Resource Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Taconic Plateau Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council

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.

Arts & Culture

New York Agricultural Land Trust Inc

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…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

226 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. 226 of the 554 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

222/226

Grantees still filing

159/226

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,335,461Arts & Culture$1,212,888Environment$804,760Education$704,234Philanthropy$658,850Health$439,233Community Improvement$309,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cloudsplitter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cloudsplitter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

68report 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

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.

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By state

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