· Private foundation
CTW Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amsterdam High School | $18,000 |
| Amsterdam Free Library | $12,000 |
| Montgomery County Literacy Project Inc | $10,000 |
| Fort Plain Library | $8,000 |
| Sanford Home for Women | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Canajoharie Library | $5,000 |
| Montgomery County Office for Aging Inc | $5,000 |
| Grow Amsterdam | $5,000 |
| Creative Connections Art Center | $5,000 |
| Walter Elwood Museum | $4,000 |
| The Frothingham Free Library | $3,670 |
| Canajoharie Central School | $3,000 |
| Oppenheim-Ephratah St Johnsville HS | $3,000 |
| FondaFultonville High School | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +190% since the first grant, against +107% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- AFAMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +269%
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY OFFICE FOR AGING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +42%
- WEWALTER ELWOOD MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CHCommunity Health Centerone grant, 2018 · $2k
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +107%
- MTMountains to Miracles Veteran Foundone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Public library
Serves as a public library
Historical library & museums
Public library
Public library providing access to a wide variety of materials and services to the community
Serves as a public library.
To provide materials and programming for the recreational and educational needs of the community.
The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…
To provide free reading and edueducation material to the general public
Library chartered to serve the town of otego (3,115)
Public free library
To provide library services to local area residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Office for Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Hunter Free Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 31 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 AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY OFFICE FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds WALTER ELWOOD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FROTHINGHAM FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FORT HUNTER FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE FARM AND RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIMENSIONS IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Amazonsmile 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 CTW Fund 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.
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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