· Public charity
Colgate University
COLGATE UNIVERSITY's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their teachers in a setting that brings together living and learning.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $833,072 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,384,204 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $91,551,132 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $792k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON CENTRAL SCHOOL | $248,601 |
| VILLAGE OF HAMILTON | $161,604 |
| TOWN OF HAMILTON | $94,120 |
| CHENANGO NURSERY SCHOOL | $89,375 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $74,284 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATION | $63,015 |
| SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS | $61,073 |
| COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| ARTS AT THE PALACE | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CMCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $926k · revenue +219% · 92% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $649k · revenue +17%
- CNCHENANGO NURSERY SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $514k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SBSlater Brothers Entertainmentone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HIHamilton Interchurch Council Food Cupboard Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +346%
- HNHAMILTON NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Improving the quality of chautauqua lake, located in chautauqua county in upstate new york. the organization is concerned about the water quality, especially the proliferation of weeds and algae and their accumulation near the shore and…
Cemetery
To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.
The alliance was formed for the purpose of working in collaboration with lake and watershed-related organizations, municipalities, and other stakeholders in chautauqua county, ny, to promote and facilitate implementation of recommendations…
Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
The albany county land bank facilitates the process of acquiring, improving and redistributing vacant and abandoned properties to eliminate the harms and liabilities caused by such properties and return them to productive use, while being…
The mission of Columbia Memorial Hospital is to provide our communities with safe, high quality, comprehensive health care services in a dignified and compassionate environment.
To provide nutritional services to the elderly residents of madison county, iowa and southern dallas county, iowa.
To preserve, enhance and advance commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, youth, civic, cultural and general interest of the political subdivisions and geographical locations where its members are located; to promote and expand…
Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents
Woodlawn cemetery serves the community as an eternal resting place; commemorating the lives of those interred; conserving, restoring and sustaining the physical attributes, horticultural aspects, buildings and infrastructure of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Community Development Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Southern Madison County Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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
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 COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LTD ↗
- Who funds THE COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT THE PALACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER SARANAC LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hamilton Interchurch Council Food Cupboard 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Colgate University 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.
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.