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Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$363kEducation$139kFood & Nutrition$74kHuman Services$68kRecreation & Sports$49kCommunity Improvement$35kYouth Development$24kEnvironment$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH COUNTRY PUBLIC RADIO$5,500
CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE$5,000
NORTH COUNTRY MINISTRY$5,000
CRAIGARDAN$5,000
SILVER BAY YMCA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UPPER JAY ARTS CENTER$5,000
SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY$4,000
LAKESIDE SCHOOL AT BLACK KETTLE FARM$4,000
OWLS HEAD MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC$3,149
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS$3,000
ESSEX COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$3,000
WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL$3,000
HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE$3,000
TICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $5k → 14%HELPS FUND: $3k → 10%VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $5k → 14%VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $5k → 14%VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $3k → 14%VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $3k → 14%ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $2k → 10%TRI-LAKES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $4k → 16%ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC: $3k → 16%SILVER BAY YMCA: $5k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $5k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $5k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $5k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $3k → 10%SILVER BAY YMCA: $3k → 10%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $3k → 10%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $1k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$637k · 60 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
75

Total granted

$637k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+38%

Still filing today

65%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +4%
  • SM
    SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +4%
  • SB
    SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING
    6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TL
    TRI-COUNTY LITERACY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +107%
  • TA
    TICONDEROGA ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +135%
  • SN
    SUNY-ESF'S NORTHERN FOREST INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History

To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.

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2
The Adirondack Carousel Inc

The organization operates a community-built attraction that celebrates the natural beauty and artistic spirit of the adirondack mountains.

Arts & Culture
3
Schroon Lake Arts Council Inc

The Schroon Lake Arts Council is devoted to enhancing our community by hosting a variety of cultural programs that promote and foster the understanding and love of music and the visual Arts. The Arts Council is composed of volunteers who…

Arts & Culture
4
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Inc

To promote better public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the adirondack's unique and diverse architectural heritage.

Arts & Culture
5
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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6
Adirondack Regional Theatre Inc

Produce quality community based family entertainment.

Arts & Culture
7
Lake Placid Public Library

To be the focal point of our community which provides educational, informational, cultural, and recreational material for all.

—
8
Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce Inc

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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9
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
10
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
11
Adirondack Theatre Festival Inc

The organization strives to challenge entertain and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. this relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in…

Arts & Culture
12
Adirondack Ski Touring Council Inc

To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Seagle Music Colony Inc D/B/a Seagle Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 148 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
58/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTICONDEROGA CENTRAL SCHOOL: $31,250 · OtherTICONDEROGA CENTRAL SCHOOLTANNERY POND COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $14,050 · Other+82 more: $266,799 · Other+82 moreUPPER JAY ART CENTER: $22,000 · Arts & CultureUPPER JAY ART CENTERTICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD …THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION…CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INCTUPPER ARTS INC: $11,100 · Arts & CultureTUPPER ARTS INCTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $10,100 · Arts & CultureLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $9,484 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBLUSEED STUDIOS INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureIndian Lake Theater Inc: $7,700 · Arts & CultureNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7,150 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $59,941 · Arts & Culture+19 moreST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $48,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERS…SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $35,000 · EducationSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY…Craigardan Inc: $18,600 · EducationCraigardan IncADIRONDACK COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $11,330 · EducationADIRONDACK COMMUNIT…TRI-COUNTY LITERACY CENTER INC: $5,700 · EducationHILLVIEW FREE LIBRARY: $5,282 · Education+8 more: $26,600 · Education+8 moreSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $25,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN: $10,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE HELPERS FUND: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesAdirondack Research Consortium: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsTANNERY POND CENTER INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsOUTDOOR EMERGENCY SERVICES GROUP INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSARANAC LAKE PEE WEE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE: $12,500 · Community ImprovementCRANBERRY LAKE NORTH SHORE HUB INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementRURAL PRESERVATION COMPANY OF CLINTON COUNTY INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,953 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $3,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$354,599Arts & Culture$206,475Education$150,512Human Services$67,500Recreation & Sports$45,500Community Improvement$22,000Food & Nutrition$11,753

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $48,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $35,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER JAY ART CENTER: $22,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD INC: $21,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetVOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCraigardan Inc: $18,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAdirondack Research Consortium: $18,000 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTANNERY POND CENTER INC: $16,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetADIRONDACK COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $11,330 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUPPER ARTS INC: $11,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $10,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $9,484 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAdirondack Park Institute Inc: $9,250 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLUSEED STUDIOS INC: $8,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,953 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndian Lake Theater Inc: $7,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCRANBERRY LAKE NORTH SHORE HUB INC: $7,500 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7,150 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRI-COUNTY LITERACY CENTER INC: $5,700 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTICONDEROGA ARTS INC: $5,541 over 1y, 23% of budgetLAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $5,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHILLVIEW FREE LIBRARY: $5,282 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFIRST NIGHT SARANAC LAKE: $5,250 over 6y, 99% of budgetSARANAC LAKE YOUTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetOUTDOOR EMERGENCY SERVICES GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetTRI-LAKES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetESSEX FOOD HUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAdirondack Film Society Inc: $4,850 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWarrensburg Emergency Medical Services Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSARANAC LAKE PEE WEE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FORGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds UPPER JAY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Craigardan Inc ↗
  • Who funds Adirondack Research Consortium ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds TANNERY POND CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds TUPPER ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN ↗
  • Who funds LAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Adirondack Park Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
  • Who funds BLUSEED STUDIOS INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Indian Lake Theater Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
  • Who funds CRANBERRY LAKE NORTH SHORE HUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY LITERACY CENTER 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.

Cloudsplitter FoundationNY121.3× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Rogers-Carroll Family Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Boquet Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Glens Falls Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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