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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.

$108k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations CTW Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2025still arriving19$108k5%
FY202420$99k5%
FY202319$90k5%
FY202219$104k5%
FY202120$98k5%
FY202017$80k0%
FY201918$68k22%
FY201821$78k29%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$489kArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$50kFood & Nutrition$34kCommunity Improvement$32kYouth Development$25kHealth$15kEnvironment$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Amsterdam Free Library$88,10093%
Montgomery County Literacy Project Inc$71,2008n/a
Montgomery County Office for Aging Inc$37,50090%
Walter Elwood Museum$27,50092%
Community Youth Center Inc$24,55064%
Frothingham Free Library$18,67082%
Fort Hunter Free Library$11,50047%
Grow Amsterdam Ny Inc$10,9003n/a
National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Inc$10,00020%
Haven of Hope Farm and Residence Inc$8,90042%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of CTW Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Amsterdam Free Library$88,10093%
Montgomery County Literacy Project Inc$71,2008n/a
Montgomery County Office for Aging Inc$37,50090%
Walter Elwood Museum$27,50092%
Community Youth Center Inc$24,55064%
Frothingham Free Library$18,67082%
Fort Hunter Free Library$11,50047%
Grow Amsterdam Ny Inc$10,9003n/a
National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Inc$10,00020%
Haven of Hope Farm and Residence Inc$8,90042%
Historic Amsterdam League$7,0003n/a
New Dimensions in Living Inc$2,5001n/a
Montgomery County Historical Society$2,00012%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($476k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget CTW Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmsterdam Free Library: $88,100 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetMontgomery County Office for Aging Inc: $37,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWalter Elwood Museum: $27,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Youth Center Inc: $24,550 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetFrothingham Free Library: $18,670 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetFort Hunter Free Library: $11,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHaven of Hope Farm and Residence Inc: $8,900 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMontgomery County Historical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 9.

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.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 CTW Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to CTW Fund Inc 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 CTW Fund Inc

How much does CTW Fund Inc give?
CTW Fund Inc reported 19 grants totaling $108,170 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does CTW Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (11%), Human Services (6%).
Who are CTW Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amsterdam Free Library ($88k), Montgomery County Literacy Project Inc ($71k), Montgomery County Office for Aging Inc ($38k).
Does CTW Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does CTW Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as CTW Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is CTW Fund Inc based?
CTW Fund Inc 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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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