· Private foundation
Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $78,000 |
| OXFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL | $6,250 |
| GREENE CENTRAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| CHEN CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COLORSCAPE CHEN ARTS FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| PALM BEACH UNIVERSITY - REGAN ROACH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| SUNY COBLESKILL - OLIVIA SCHINALDI | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE - CADEN STONE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +59%
Cornell University8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +59%- CCCOLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +29%
- VOVILLAGE OF OXFORD BANK RESTORATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k
- MCMORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +62%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nazareth University and the most unlike its peers is Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 70 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 CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE OXFORD NOW INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The R C Smith Foundation Inc · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Greater Norwich Foundation · Preferred Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation 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.
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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