· Private foundation
Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k49 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $528k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER | $421,200 |
| SEWARD HOUSE MUSEUM | $224,868 |
| CAYUGA CO EMERSON PARK | $201,000 |
| THE REV THEATRE COMPANY | $150,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART | $128,800 |
| THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FINGER LAKES SPCA OF CNY | $80,000 |
| NICK'S RIDE 4 FRIENDS INC | $50,000 |
| AUBURN YMCA-WEIU | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY | $50,000 |
| AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER | $50,000 |
| CAYUGA CO EMERSON PARK | $45,000 |
| E JOHN GAVRAS CENTER | $44,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
156 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 19 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSeward House Museum7× · 2018–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +261% · 49% of their budget
- MPMERRY-GO-ROUND PLAYHOUSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
- KCKEUKA COLLEGE3× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MUMARIST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $268k · revenue +31%
- EJE J G FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +16% · 86% of their budget
- EUEXCELSIOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $140k · revenue +21%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
How this is measured
207 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 207 of the 329 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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