· Private foundation
Evelyn Bordewick Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of EVELYN BORDEWICK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COL MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUND | $26,500 |
| COL GREENE HUMANE SOC | $17,500 |
| KINDERHOOK MEM LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| VALATIE FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY FOUND | $5,000 |
| HUDSON HALL | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM RESCUE SQUAD INC | $4,500 |
| HUDSON AREA ASSOC LIB | $3,500 |
| COLUMBIA CO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| ALIGHT | $3,000 |
| ROELIF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE OF COLUMBIA COUNTY | $3,000 |
| COLUMBIA CTY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF COLUMBIAGREENE | $3,000 |
| ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- VVVALATIE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +86%
- VFVALATIE FREE LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +1%
- CRCHATHAM RESCUE SQUAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CGCOLUMBIA GREENE COMM FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CGCOLUMBIA GREENE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CHCOLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
To provide free public library services
To provide a public library for the cohocton ny residence
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
The fire company provides fire protection to the town of queensbury, new york.
The mission of the Tivoli Free Library is two-fold: To facilitate lifelong learning and self education for the members of the surrounding community and to encourage young children and families to develop an ongoing interest in reading and…
Incorporated in 1946 for the purpose of providing the village of croton-on-hudson with access to library services.
To provide a full service library for the town of lagrange, ny and the surrounding communities
Provided library materials and services to residents of manchester and shortsville, ny and the surrounding area.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
To enrich the quality of life in the chartered service area by providing educational, recreational, aesthetic, cultural and informational programs, services, and materials to all our citizens regardless of age, gender, race, religion, or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham Rescue Squad Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 52 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 VALATIE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds VALATIE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPORT RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NIVERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CHATHAM FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Valatie Santa Claus Club ↗
- Who funds Family Resource Centers of Columbia County ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VALATIE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PS 21 INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE 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.
Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Hrbt Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Ackerman Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Edward W Golden Foundation · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · JM McDonald 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Evelyn Bordewick 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.