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Cortland Community Foundation

The Foundation's major purpose is to provide grants and contributions for civic, educational and charitable programs, and for community development and low cost housing initiatives within the local community of Cortland, New York.

$749k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$639k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$13,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$114,196
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Cortland Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$602k29%
FY202318$489k28%
FY202219$490k21%
FY202114$438k7%
FY202014$442k50%
FY201914$376k29%
FY201816$364k63%
FY20179$340kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$262kReligion$206kEnvironment$205kPhilanthropy$122kHealth$57kFood & Nutrition$57kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Cortland Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YWCA Cortland$535,66955%
Homer-Cortland Community Agency Inc$468,953640%
Young Mens Christian Association of Cortland$450,651520%
Cortland Repertory Theatre Inc$426,845814%
Cortland County Historical Society Inc$245,776822%
Lime Hollow Nature Center Inc$169,75558%
Center for the Arts of Homer Inc$139,69984%
Cortland Free Library$91,68482%
United Way for Cortland County Inc$85,27778%
Suny Cortland$78,7002n/a
Cortland Loaves & Fishes Inc$56,797411%
McLean Community Church Ucc$44,4004n/a
Cortland Memorial Foundation Inc$40,23252%
The Salvation Army$36,5394n/a
Berean Bible Church$35,6005n/a
United Presbyterian Church$33,3341n/a
Cortland College Foundation Inc$20,95010%
Cortland Sports Complex Inc$19,1003n/a
Kansas State University$17,2002n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$17,0002n/a
Cortland County Community Action Program$15,10010%
Hospice Foundation of Cortland County In$11,650214%
Marathon Area Historical Society$9,2001n/a
First Congregational Church of Naples Inc$9,0001n/a
Central New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program$8,00012%
St Marys Church$7,7331n/a
Family Connections Inc$7,00012%
Cultural Council of Cortland County$6,626116%
Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny$6,29710%
McLean Cemetery Association$5,3001n/a
Scott United Methodist Church$5,2001n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($435k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cortland Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA Cortland: $535,669 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHomer-Cortland Community Agency Inc: $468,953 over 6y, 40% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Cortland: $450,651 over 5y, 20% of budgetCortland Repertory Theatre Inc: $426,845 over 8y, 14% of budgetCortland County Historical Society Inc: $245,776 over 8y, 22% of budgetLime Hollow Nature Center Inc: $169,755 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetCenter for the Arts of Homer Inc: $139,699 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCortland Free Library: $91,684 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Way for Cortland County Inc: $85,277 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetCortland Loaves & Fishes Inc: $56,797 over 4y, 11% of budgetCortland Memorial Foundation Inc: $40,232 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCortland College Foundation Inc: $20,950 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCortland County Community Action Program: $15,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Foundation of Cortland County In: $11,650 over 2y, 14% of budgetCentral New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program: $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFamily Connections Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCultural Council of Cortland County: $6,626 over 1y, 16% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny: $6,297 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ralph R Wilkins Foundation Inc · The Siegle Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Yaman Foundation · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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How do I get to Cortland Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cortland Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Cortland Community Foundation

How much does Cortland Community Foundation give?
Cortland Community Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $639,322, out of $748,912 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cortland Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Human Services (34%), Education (7%).
Who are Cortland Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: YWCA Cortland ($536k), Homer-Cortland Community Agency Inc ($469k), Young Mens Christian Association of Cortland ($451k).
Does Cortland Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cortland Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, JM McDonald Foundation Inc, Ralph R Wilkins Foundation Inc.
Where is Cortland Community Foundation based?
Cortland Community Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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