· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FENIMORE FARM & COUNTRY VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $10,000 |
| KLINKHART HALL ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE CARIDAD CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHOW JUMPING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| HERO FUND AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds The Show Jumping Hall of Fame and 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Hero Fund America Inc ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fernleigh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fernleigh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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