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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cortland Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cortland Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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