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Cutco Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cutco Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$798k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$553kPhilanthropy$548kCommunity Improvement$245kPublic Safety & Disaster$143kYouth Development$83kArts & Culture$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k69 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY$100,000
YMCA OF THE TWIN TIERS$100,000
CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$50,000
UNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES$40,000
SAINT BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY$25,000
SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS$25,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
INTANDEM$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%PROJECT LINUS: $250 → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $2k → 8%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $2k → 8%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION NFP: $2k → 8%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%FRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $1k → 13%DIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 16%DIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 16%DIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $1k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%GENESIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 108 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
54

Total granted

$5.3M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+66%

Still filing today

35%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $641k · revenue +88%
  • OG
    OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $599k · revenue +62%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • OB
    OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • LO
    LITERACY OF LOVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +61%
  • U'
    UNDER 'S' PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Olean Public Library

To assist all people with their educational, informational and recreational needs.

Education
2
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
3
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
4
State University of New York At Oneonta Foundation Corporation

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…

—
5
Daemen University

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…

Education
6
Tioga United Way Inc

Efficiently allocate and organize donations to local charitable organizations.

Philanthropy
7
Food Bank of Central New York

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Oswego Health Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Ottauquechee Health Foundation Inc

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.

—
10
LeMoyne-Owen College

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.

Education
11
Lake Plains Community Care Network Inc

To preserve Rural Health Care by Promoting Wellness and Ensuring Access to Quality Local Care

Health
12
Albany County Opportunity Inc

Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olean General Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $640,500 · OtherST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITYYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA: $463,650 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $431,023 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONSAINT BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $394,500 · OtherSAINT BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITYROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE: $115,527 · Other+138 more: $929,622 · Other+138 moreOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $599,100 · PhilanthropyOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL F…UNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES INC: $360,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGU…GREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $151,550 · PhilanthropyGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY …ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $32,000 · PhilanthropyJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $896,000 · EducationJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY …University of Dayton: $87,000 · EducationUniversity of Dayton+5 more: $18,000 · EducationOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $215,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesDIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP: $4,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,200 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $25,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $6,000 · HealthCARE FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $17,600 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureOLEAN THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSACKETS HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,974,822Philanthropy$1,200,150Education$1,001,000Community Improvement$221,000Human Services$84,200Health$36,500Arts & Culture$25,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $896,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $640,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $599,100 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA: $463,650 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES INC: $360,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $215,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetGREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $151,550 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $87,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $25,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INTANDEM FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $23,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFRONT ROW FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetOLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,350 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $17,600 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF OLEAN NY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC: $6,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Selling Education Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY OF LOVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCANTICLE FARM INC: $2,702 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOLEAN THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $2,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetALLEGANY COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOYFUL RESCUES INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLEAN AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPFEIFFER NATURE CENTER & FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER OLEAN INC: $1,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT VIEW CEMETERY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWCA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACKETS HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASA-TRINITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGANY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG 30 ALLSTAR CHARITIES CLASSIC: $420 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT LINUS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Greater Olean Communi…Community Foundation …The Stitt Foundation …Ft & Anna C Manley Me…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…The Western New York …United Way of Cattara…Northwest Charitable …Buffalo Sabres Founda…The Peter and Elizabe…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community FoundationNY32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cutco Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cutco Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Cutco Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cutco Foundation 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.

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 175 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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