· Public charity
Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Inc
Erie canalway heritage fund, inc.
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.
The 10 grants below total $230,529 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,529 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 35 GRANTS 5000 | $65,495 |
| CANAL SOCIETY OF NYS | $42,750 |
| THE ARC OF WAYNE | $26,500 |
| SCHENECTADY CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $24,000 |
| VILLAGE OF FORT EDWARD | $19,552 |
| CHITTENANGO LANDING CANAL BOAT MUSE | $12,800 |
| TOWN OF LYONS | $12,760 |
| VILLAGE OF BROCKPORT | $9,500 |
| THE VILLAGE OF SCHUYLERVILLE | $8,922 |
| CORN HILL NAVIGATION | $8,250 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- ECERIE CANALWAY HERITAGE FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $212k · revenue +91%
- CSCANAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $63k · revenue +72%
BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF MACEDONone grant, 2023 · $24k
- TOTOWN OF MANLIUSone grant, 2023 · $24k
- TETHE ERIE CANAL MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +8%
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 organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
The niagara history center preserves, promotes and interprets the diverse heritage of the people, places and events to niagara county and the erie canal. we are a colloborative community resource for lifelong learning for current and…
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
The History Center in Tompkins County, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and encourage access to its unique collections, while designing learning experiences and services that create opportunities for people to…
Museum for the acquisition, conservation and exhibition of historical artifacts of st. lawrence county, new york.
The purpose of the Rochester Historical Society is to seek out, collect, preserve and restore those materials, records, and artifacts which relate to the history of Rochester.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Erie Canal Museum and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society 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 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 ERIE CANALWAY HERITAGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Chapter NYSARC Inc The Arc Wayne ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ERIE CANAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT NEW YORK ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA CONVENTION CENTER MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHITTENANGO LANDING CANAL BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABOLITION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUDSON CROSSING PARK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LUMBER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COHOES LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Preservation League of New York State · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Erie Canalway Heritage Fund 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.
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.