· Private foundation
Cutco Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k69 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE TWIN TIERS | $100,000 |
| OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES | $40,000 |
| SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS | $25,000 |
| SAINT BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| INTANDEM | $10,000 |
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, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
108 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SBST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $641k · revenue +88%
- OGOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $599k · revenue +62%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA8× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- OBOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONSone grant, 2023 · $20k
- STSOUTHERN TIER CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP WALSH ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- MKMITCHELL KIEFER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To assist all people with their educational, informational and recreational needs.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Efficiently allocate and organize donations to local charitable organizations.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health and its not for profit entities as they provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of the residents in our community.
The foundation strives to improve the health and well-being of people in need who live in the towns we serve through financial assistance, community partnerships, education opportunities, and support of wellness initiatives.
The College is a liberal arts institution committed to fostering academic excellence and to provide high educational opportunities for a diverse population with disparate levels of academic preparation.
To preserve Rural Health Care by Promoting Wellness and Ensuring Access to Quality Local Care
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olean General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pfeiffer Nature Center & Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 175 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 JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTANDEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT ROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
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: Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Stitt Foundation Inc · Ft & Anna C Manley Mem Tw Pfdn · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Cutco Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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