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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $639,322 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $748,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,590 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 $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA of Cortland | $114,196 |
| HomerCortland Community Agen | $84,395 |
| Cortland Repertory Theatre | $71,111 |
| Cortland County Historical So | $43,477 |
| Central NY Community Foundati | $37,000 |
| Lime Hollow | $36,266 |
| United Presbyterian Church | $33,334 |
| YMCA | $33,209 |
| Cortland Loaves & Fishes | $23,868 |
| Cortland College Foundation | $20,950 |
| Center for the Arts | $16,672 |
| Cortland Free Library | $15,582 |
| McLean Community Church | $13,400 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,200 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1000k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- YCYWCA CORTLAND5× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +29%
- HCHOMER-CORTLAND COMMUNITY AGENCY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +49% · 40% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $451k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- LHLime Hollow Center for Enviroone grant, 2017 · $35k
- MCMARATHON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CCCORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
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 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.
The Cortland Regional Sports Council, Inc. was formed to promote and develop sport, athletic and recreational opportunities, events, competitions, and educational opportunities for Cortland County, New York.
To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
To attract and promote business in cortland county through social events, seminars, and other networking actvities
To solicit receive and administer funds for educational purposes and to disseminateinformation and promote interest in the preservation history culture architecture andpublic use of cortlands traditional downtown
To provide individual and family behavioral health care services for cortland and madison county residents through family counseling, chemical dependence, mental health, and substance abuse prevention counseling programs.
To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.
The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
Cemetery burial and memorialization of the deceased.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way for Cortland County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Connections 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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 YWCA CORTLAND ↗
- Who funds HOMER-CORTLAND COMMUNITY AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR CORTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF CORTLAND COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds Central New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL COUNCIL OF CORTLAND 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: 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
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 Cortland Community 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.
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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