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Dixon G & Mary L Blodgett Char Tr

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$150kEducation$125kHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$75kCommunity Improvement$50kArts & Culture$22k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,608
Median grant
3
States reached
$835k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEUKA COLLEGE$5,217
CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$5,217
UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY$5,217
CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME$5,217
AUBURN HOSPITAL SYS FDN INC$5,217
CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION$2,608
TRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR$2,608
SENECA CAYUGA COUNTIES CHAPTER$2,608
CNY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,608
CAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES$2,608
CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN$2,608
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,608
SEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT$2,608
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,608
CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART$2,608
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $6k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $6k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $6k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $6k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $6k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $5k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $5k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $5k → 13%CAYUGA SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME: $5k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 15 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
0

Total granted

$485k
$0

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureOther
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

  • CP
    CAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC DBA WESTMINSTER MANOR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • KC
    KEUKA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • CC
    CAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +31%

Funded once

    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
    Cayuga Medical Associates Pc

    Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…

    Health
    2
    Cayugaseneca Community Action Agency Inc

    To respectfully assist people to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency through direct services, education, and community partnerships. the agency administers more than 50 different programs including head start, early head start, homeless…

    —
    3
    Cayuga Medical Center At Ithaca

    Cayuga medical center will remain the region's leading hospital, healthcare provider, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. we empower our people and employ our capabilities to equitably…

    Health
    4
    Capital University

    Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

    Education
    5
    Cayuga County Community Health Network Inc

    To build partnerships for a healthier cayuga county.

    Health
    6
    Four County Comprehensive Mental Health Center Inc

    Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.

    Health
    7
    Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    8
    University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    9
    Syracuse University

    Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

    Education
    10
    Chemung-Schuyler Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc

    The arc of chemung-schuyler promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

    —
    11
    Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    12
    Central Minnesota Council On Aging Inc

    The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cayuga Counseling Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association 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

    11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/11
    Grantees still filing
    9/11
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    AUBURN HOSPITAL SYS FDN INC: $50,157 · OtherAUBURN HOSPITAL SYS FDN INCTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,157 · OtherTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR: $25,078 · OtherTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FORAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25,077 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYCAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $25,077 · OtherCAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INCCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION: $25,077 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATIONMOZAIC CHAPTER NYSARC INC: $25,077 · OtherMOZAIC CHAPTER NYSARC INCCAYUGA COMMUNITY FUND: $11,616 · OtherCAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC DBA WESTMINSTER MANOR: $50,157 · Human ServicesCAYUGA-SYRACUSE P…CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,077 · Human ServicesCAYUGA HOME FOR C…KEUKA COLLEGE: $50,157 · EducationKEUKA COLLEGESEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT: $25,077 · EducationSEYMOUR PUBLIC LI…UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $50,157 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,461 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL NEW YO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,077 · HealthCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $22,288 · Arts & Culture
    Other$237,316Human Services$75,234Education$75,234Philanthropy$63,618Health$25,077Arts & Culture$22,288

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $50,157 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,157 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC DBA WESTMINSTER MANOR: $50,157 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $50,157 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $25,077 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT: $25,077 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMOZAIC CHAPTER NYSARC INC: $25,077 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,077 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,077 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $22,288 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,461 over 5y, 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 UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC ↗
    • Who funds THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds CAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC DBA WESTMINSTER MANOR ↗
    • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds CAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
    • Who funds SEYMOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
    • Who funds MOZAIC CHAPTER NYSARC INC ↗
    • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
    • Who funds CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
    • Who funds CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC ↗
    • Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

    Central New York Community Foundation IncNY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · De French Foundation Inc · The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Dixon G & Mary L Blodgett Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dixon G & Mary L Blodgett Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      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.
      05Through Plinth

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      Find your warmest path to Dixon G & Mary L Blodgett Char Tr 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 16 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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