· Private foundation
George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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: 51% of GEORGE A AND MARGARET MEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $739k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOPERNIK OBSERVATORY & SCIENCE CENTER | $200,000 |
| HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK INC | $100,000 |
| ARROWHEAD MINISTRIES INC | $100,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $89,000 |
| EMPORIUM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| BENDER SAFETY & TRAINING CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF BINGHAMTON | $50,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNSELING SERVICES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WALTON THEATRE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $35,000 |
| FAMILY ENRICHMENT NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| ENDICOTT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 6% of George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation 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, 65% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 55% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 13 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $508k 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
- GAGUY AND MARY FELT MANOR INC4× · 2020–2024 · $388k · revenue +23%
- HPHANCOCK PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $387k · revenue +104% · 76% of their budget
- LHLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $380k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $150k
- AFASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
- PAPORT ALLEGANY AREA RECREATIONAL AUTone grant, 2019 · $130k
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.
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To improve the quality of life for all residents of its primary service areas by focusing on meeting the needs of the low-income and disadvantaged population, and to promote the personal and family growth of its constituents as they move…
To promote a thriving arts community, essential to the quality of life in broome county ny and advance the awareness and value of the arts through advocacy, fundraising, grant making, services, and programs.
To be a leader in community partnership building and to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
Build a healthy community by supporting the revitalization of the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, through housing and economic development.
The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.
The mission of the Wallkill Public Library is to provide our community with access to the highest quality materials, services, and programs, as a source of information, education, entertainment, and cultural enrichment. The library enables…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home of Wyoming Conference and the most unlike its peers is Hancock Hounds Dog Park 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 35 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 157 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 GUY AND MARY FELT MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Tier Community Action Corp ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HANCOCK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Arrowhead Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Broome County Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN TIER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF SCNY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF WYOMING CONFERENCE ↗
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 South Central New York Inc · United Way of Broome County Inc · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · Raymond Foundation · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Roger Kresge Foundation Inc · Ahearn Foundation (Pfd) · The Victor& Esther Rozen 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 George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation 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.
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