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Fernleigh Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $110,000 |
| UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $35,000 |
| MARY IMOGENE BASSETT HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $10,000 |
| KLINKHART HALL ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| FENIMORE FARM & COUNTRY VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SHOW JUMPING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| THE CARIDAD CENTER | $5,000 |
| ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| HERO FUND AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- USUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +62%
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM6× · 2018–2024 · $395k · revenue +193%
- TMThe Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TSTHE SUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $75k
- KAKLINKHART ARTS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TUTEMPLE UNIVERSITY KLEIN COLLEGE OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Through immersive experiences, we enrich life today by connecting people with history, art, and nature.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
Sonnenberg gardens and mansion preserves the living collection of nine historic gardens and interprets, and promotes the life, times, and legacy of canandaigua's thompson family estate.
Curatorial conservation of objects relating to horse racing industry
The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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 organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenimore Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Parks. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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.
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 42 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 NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds CLARA WELCH THANKSGIVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Western Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Show Jumping Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KLINKHART HALL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds Hero Fund America Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fernleigh 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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