· Private foundation
Corning Incorporated 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k179 grants · $714k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $987k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC | $140,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC | $140,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC | $140,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC | $140,000 |
| GLASS ART SOCIETY INC | $100,000 |
| DORMANN LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| TANGLEWOOD COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC | $90,000 |
| NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC | $90,000 |
| THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC | $87,500 |
| THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC | $87,500 |
| CLEMENS CENTER PERFORMING ARTS INC | $75,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $75,000 |
| ONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC | $70,000 |
| ONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC | $70,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
327 repeat relationships — 178 still active in FY2023, 149 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC5× · 2018–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +4%
- OSONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +37% · 33% of their budget
- NHNONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +15% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHER TIERINCone grant, 2017 · $515k
- MGMATCHING GIFT PROGRAM HEALTH AND WELLNESSone grant, 2017 · $310k
- MGMATCHING GIFT PROGRAM ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $237k
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 Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Children's services
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
United way of westchester and putnam mobilizes strategic partnerships and leverages resources to create a more equitable community by advancing education, financial stability, and health initiatives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Southern Tier Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metro Sports Fieldhouse. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
452 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. 452 of the 598 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 UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC ↗
- Who funds NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Science and Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds CORNING ELMIRA MUSICAL ARTS INC ORCHESTRA OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAREER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL IN ↗
- Who funds Watson Homestead Conference and Retreat Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CORNING-PAINTED POST CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Corning Comfort Care Inc Bampas House ↗
- Who funds HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Glass Art Society ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DORMANN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County ↗
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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · George Foundation Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable 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 Corning Incorporated 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.
- St Ann's Home Inc — 51% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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