· Private foundation
Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH COUNTRY PUBLIC RADIO | $5,500 |
| UPPER JAY ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CRAIGARDAN | $5,000 |
| SILVER BAY YMCA | $5,000 |
| SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY | $4,000 |
| LAKESIDE SCHOOL AT BLACK KETTLE FARM | $4,000 |
| OWLS HEAD MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC | $3,149 |
| ESSEX COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| TICONDEROGA FESTIVAL GUILD | $3,000 |
| WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE | $3,000 |
| TANNERY POND CENTER | $3,000 |
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, $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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +4%- SMSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +4%
- SBSILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND TRAINING6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TLTRI-COUNTY LITERACY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +107%
- TATICONDEROGA ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +135%
- OEOUTDOOR EMERGENCY SERVICES GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · 96% of their budget
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.
To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.
The organization operates a community-built attraction that celebrates the natural beauty and artistic spirit of the adirondack mountains.
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…
To promote better public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the adirondack's unique and diverse architectural heritage.
Produce quality community based family entertainment.
To be the focal point of our community which provides educational, informational, cultural, and recreational material for all.
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
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…
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
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…
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Inc and 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 148 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 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 ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRANBERRY LAKE NORTH SHORE HUB INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun 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.
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% 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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