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Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc
We bring people and resources together to build a more equitable tompkins county by inspiring diverse philanthropy, catalyzing collaborations and championing inclusion and justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 115 grants below total $2,101,698 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,283,058 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,181,360 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
- Under $10k46 grants · $336k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $639k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASCADILLA BOAT CLUB | $145,272 |
| FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY OF ITHACA | $120,250 |
| GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER (GIAC) | $104,767 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $94,710 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK | $66,788 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $57,320 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DURANGO DBA SUMMIT CHURCH | $50,000 |
| GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY | $47,000 |
| THREEFOLD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION-DBA EURYTHMY SPRING VALLEY | $39,500 |
| US-RILM OFFICE | $36,557 |
| PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION | $35,450 |
| VILLAGE AT ITHACA | $33,000 |
| THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN TOMPKINS COUNTY | $32,979 |
| UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY | $32,790 |
| HOSPICARE & PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES OF TC | $32,750 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
- GIGREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $930k · revenue +142%
- GOGOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $538k · revenue +26% · 60% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION8× · 2018–2025 · $521k · revenue +43%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2024 · $135k · revenue 0%- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $132k · revenue 0%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $132k · revenue +8%
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.
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
To provide free public library services
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
With over a century of service to the greater utica area, the library remains dedicated to providing information and learning experiences throughout our diverse community.
To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.
Cooperative library system
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
Tompkins community action, inc. (tcaction) "believes an active community can produce powerful change". located in upstate new york's finger lakes region, tcaction has served the community for over 55 years, implementing programs that…
To empower its members by providing support, programs, and advocacy, resulting in stronger libraries and communities within the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ladies' Unio N Benevolent Society. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
213 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. 213 of the 251 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 GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Southside Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ITHACA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds REPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DE LITTERATURE MUSICALE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICARE & PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Cascadilla Boat Club Ltd ↗
- Who funds GROTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
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: Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Norathco Foundation · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · Finger Lakes Library System · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Brooks Family 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 Community Foundation of Tompkins 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.
- Williams College — 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.