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Dewar Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$657k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$580kEducation$499kHuman Services$456kHealth$434kArts & Culture$415kRecreation & Sports$83kYouth Development$50kPhilanthropy$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 62 grants below total $519,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $656,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $310k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hartwick College$40,000
SUNY College at Oneonta Foundation$30,000
Oneonta Family YMCA$30,000
Friends of Bassett Healthcare Network$25,000
Friends of the Oneonta Community Health Center$25,000
Friends of Bassett Healthcare Network$20,000
Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center$17,300
Helios$15,000
Oneonta Family YMCA$15,000
Orpheus Theatre$15,000
Huntington Memorial Library$15,000
Springbrook, Inc.$15,000
Oneonta School District$15,000
Catholic Charities of Delaware and Otsego Countie$12,500
Greater Oneonta Historical Society$10,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 83 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

83 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
12

Total granted

$2.6M
$638k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+89%

Still filing today

31%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • HC
    Hartwick College
    4× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +8%
  • OF
    OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • SN
    SPRINGBROOK NY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $577k
  • CA
    CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • OA
    OHS Alumni Association
    one grant, 2021 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Oneida County Historical Society Inc

The society's mission is to preserve the past of oneida county and central new york for present and future generations. the society seeks to make this rich heritage readily available to researchers, families and students, enhancing the…

Arts & Culture
2
Catskill Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the catskill symphony orchestra is to entertain, educate, and inspire audiences of all ages by presenting a professional ensemble of the highest artistic quality performing the full range of symphonic literature. the…

Arts & Culture
3
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…

4
The Orchestra Association of Northern New York Inc

To enrich the quality of life in our region by sharing the power of music to inspire, educate, and entertain

Arts & Culture
5
Onondaga County Medsociety Inc

Membership organization acting as liason between member physicians and general public.

6
Ontario County Historical Society

Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.

7
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
8
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga historical association museum & research center exists to inspire people's understanding that the history we share as a community is the foundation for our future together. our purpose is to encourage a diverse audience from the…

Arts & Culture
9
Onaga Historical Society

To bring together those interested in history especially the history of the city of onaga and the surrounding area

10
Onondaga Free Library

The mission of onondaga free library is to provide access to all for lifelong learning, innovative programs and services, and to promote the literacy and well being of the community.

Education
11
Onondaga Fire Company Inc

Provide fire & rescue service to the residents of the town of onondaga and the surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The Convention and Visitors Bureau for Oneida County Inc

The organization's sole purpose is to promote tourism in oneida county, new york. all revenues received from all sources are spent toward this purpose.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneonta Outlaws Baseball Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Literacy Volunteers of Otsego & Delaware Counties. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsSenior Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Construc…Local History MuseumsPregnancy Support CentersClassical Music OrchestrasYouth Sports ProgramsCharter and Independent Sch…United Way AffiliatesHospice and Palliative CareCommunity Theater Companies
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,717

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.

03the grantee network

34 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 97 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $576,840 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUNY College at Oneonta Foundation — $155,000 · OtherSUNY College at Oneonta FoundationFriends of Bassett Healthcare Network — $130,000 · OtherOneonta Family YMCA — $120,000 · Other+68 more — $1,554,150 · Other+68 moreORPHEUS THEATRE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $47,500 · Arts & CultureFIRST NIGHT ONEONTA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureONEONTA CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $24,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK OF ONEONTA INC FKA UPPER CATSKILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $16,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBROOK NY INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesFamily Resource Network Inc — $34,000 · Human ServicesCATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesHartwick College — $115,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF OTSEGO & DELAWARE COUNTIES — $15,000 · EducationONEONTA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC — $15,000 · EducationFOOTHILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $15,000 · EducationRICKY J PARISIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $63,000 · HealthATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $36,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $31,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL NY LTD — $4,500 · Recreation & SportsONEONTA OUTLAWS BASEBALL CLUB INC — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsWEST KORTRIGHT CENTREINC — $5,500 · Community Improvement
Other$2,535,990Arts & Culture$213,000Human Services$204,000Education$169,500Health$132,000Recreation & Sports$7,000Community Improvement$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHartwick College — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGBROOK NY INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $63,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetORPHEUS THEATRE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetGREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $47,500 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $36,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetFamily Resource Network Inc — $34,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST NIGHT ONEONTA INC — $30,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONEONTA CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $24,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OTSEGO COUNTY — $22,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK OF ONEONTA INC FKA UPPER CATSKILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $16,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF OTSEGO & DELAWARE COUNTIES — $15,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetONEONTA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC — $15,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEONTA LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOOTHILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCATSKILL CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $12,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetFUTURE FOR ONEONTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetRICKY J PARISIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOHARIE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTI — $6,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWEST KORTRIGHT CENTREINC — $5,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetONEONTA COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DBA OTSEGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF RECOVERY DEDICATED TO OTHERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL NY LTD — $4,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetONEONTA OUTLAWS BASEBALL CLUB INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Hartwick College
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC
  • Who funds SPRINGBROOK NY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds ORPHEUS THEATRE INC
  • Who funds GREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds ATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
  • Who funds Family Resource Network Inc
  • Who funds FAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds FIRST NIGHT ONEONTA INC
  • Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE 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.

A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation IncNY32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · Delaware National Bank of Delhi Corporate · The Scriven Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · The Tom Morgan and Erna J McReynolds Charitable Foundation · United Way of Mid Rural New York Inc · 8187770 the Eggleston Foundation Co Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP · Allstadt Hardin Foundation · Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation Inc

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dewar Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dewar 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $671k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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