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Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc

The organization leads and inspires community wide efforts that significantly improve the quality of life and the prosperity of the Otsego County, NY area.

$406k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTSEGO COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $301,161 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $406,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,225 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION$200,000
CATSKILL AGRARIAN ALLIANCE$15,000
SUNY ONEONTA RESEARCH FD$13,200
COMMUNITY CUPBOARD EDMESTON$10,000
RICHFIELD SPRINGS COMMUNITY C$10,000
BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO$10,000
VALLEY HEALTH SERVICES$10,000
BUGBEE CHILDRENS CENTER$8,785
CHERRY VALLEY FOOD PANTRY$7,176
COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY$7,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELIOS CARE: $18k → 13%OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO: $10k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $10k → 13%Catskill Center for Independence: $10k → 13%RAILROAD AND LOCAL YMCA OF ONEONTA: $8k → 13%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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 3 repeat orgs$809k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
32

Total granted

$66k
$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK OF ONEONTA INC FKA UPPER CATSKILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $28k · revenue +88%
  • CA
    CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • MO
    Misc other 5000 individually
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k

Funded once

  • OC
    OTSEGO COUNTY NY BUSINESSES
    one grant, 2020 · $176k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTIES
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • TC
    THE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $28k

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.

1
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
2
Oswego Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health and its not for profit entities as they provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of the residents in our community.

Philanthropy
3
Otsego Land Trust

Otsego Land Trust conserves our region's natural heritage of woodlands, farmlands and waters that sustain rural communities, promote public health, support wildlife diversity and inspire the human spirit.

Environment
4
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
5
Cny Works Inc

To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.

6
Springside At Seneca Hill Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc., the sole member of Springside at Seneca Hill, Inc., is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
7
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
8
Oswego County Opportunities Inc

To inspire partnerships and provide services that empower people, support communities and change lives.

Human Services
9
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
10
Cattaraugus Rehabilitation Center Inc

The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…

Human Services
11
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Northern Oswego County Health Services Inc

To provide the community with quality healthcare and promote the wellness of the community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Athelas Therapeutic Riding 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 41 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%14%<5yr9%10%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr20%28%35–55yr22%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%11%<5yr9%4%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr20%15%35–55yr22%59%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
6%
38/588

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

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OTSEGO COUNTY NY BUSINESSES — $176,300 · OtherOTSEGO COUNTY NY BUSINESSESCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTIES — $35,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTIESTHE CENTER — $27,542 · OtherTHE CENTERCatholic Charities — $20,000 · OtherOTSEGO COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH — $18,192 · Other+20 more — $180,860 · Other+20 moreTHE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION I…Friends of Bassett Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK OF ONEONTA INC FKA UPPER CATSKILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $27,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,000 · Arts & CultureGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCATSKILL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureORPHEUS THEATRE INC — $6,600 · Arts & CultureCATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE — $17,500 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATSKILL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesTHE RAILROAD AND LOCAL YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY CUPBOARD OF EDMESTON INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionUNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC — $8,000 · Food & NutritionCOOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionValley Health Services Inc — $10,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $7,250 · HealthATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $5,500 · HealthCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $16,600 · Community Improvement
Other$457,894Philanthropy$210,000Arts & Culture$62,600Human Services$54,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Health$22,750Community Improvement$16,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK OF ONEONTA INC FKA UPPER CATSKILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $27,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $16,600 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHartwick College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Health Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Bassett Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATHFINDER VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CUPBOARD OF EDMESTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCATSKILL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $9,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA NEW YORK INC — $8,800 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OTSEGO COUNTY — $7,525 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTI — $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCATSKILL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE RAILROAD AND LOCAL YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOTSEGO RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC — $7,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $7,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetORPHEUS THEATRE INC — $6,600 over 1y, 16% of budgetOTSEGO 2000 INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $5,500 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

The Community Foundation for South Central New York IncNY30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Community Foundation of Otsego County 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Family Resource Network Inc47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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, FY2025

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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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