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Glens Falls Foundation

To improve the quality of life for the people of the Greater Glens Falls area through grants to non-profit organizations and donor-directed scholarships for area students.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.0MArts & Culture$515kHuman Services$432kEducation$405kReligion$311kHousing & Shelter$232kRecreation & Sports$230kFood & Nutrition$224kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $1,371,382 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,895,039 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $523,657 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $818k
$15,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fl West Cost Pub Broadcastin$198,900
Lake George Association Inc$198,900
Union College$198,900
Glens Falls Hospital Fdtn$165,877
Regional Food Bank of NENY$55,000
YMCA of Glens Falls$33,357
Pember Library & Museum$31,000
The Open Door Mission$30,000
The Prevention Council$27,720
Salvation Army$27,449
Albany Medical Center Fndn$26,750
West Glens Falls EMS$25,000
The Conkling Center$23,720
Shelters of Saratoga Inc$20,000
The Church of the Messiah$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Berkshire Farm Center & Serv: $12k → 11%AIM SERVICES INC: $7k → 7%Civic Center of Moreau: $35k → 7%LG Region Women for WIN: $10k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizens: $17k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizen Cen: $14k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizen Cen: $13k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizens: $12k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizen Cen: $10k → 10%BATTENKILL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%Support-Link Inc: $10k → 10%Queensbury Senior Citizen Cen: $9k → 10%WWAMH: $15k → 11%Queensbury Senior Citizen Cen: $7k → 10%Operation Santa Claus: $10k → 11%Senior Citizens Center of Kin: $10k → 11%Family Services Association: $19k → 10%Family Service Association: $18k → 10%Family Services Association: $17k → 10%Family Services Association: $16k → 10%High Peaks Hospice: $13k → 10%High Peaks Hospice: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $9k → 10%Family Services Association: $9k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $9k → 10%Family Service Association: $9k → 10%Family Service Association: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 46 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
52

Total granted

$2.9M
$631k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+1%

Still filing today

72%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $844k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • GF
    GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $505k · revenue +167%
  • SO
    Servants of the Word Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +132%
  • GF
    GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $191k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • WC
    WARRENWASHINGTON COUNTY HOMELESS YOUTH COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    CIVIC CENTER OF MOREAU INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +45%
  • SH
    SAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education
2
West Glens Falls Volunteer Fire Company

Fire and rescue service

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Greater Adirondack Home Aides Inc

Greater Adirondack Home Aides, Inc. is a compassionate, professional home care organization providing quality personal care and supportive services to clients and their families throughout Warren, Washington, Saratoga, and surrounding…

Human Services
4
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
5
Waterford Rescue Squad Inc

Ambulance and rescue service for town of waterford, new york

Health
6
Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department

Department provides fire fighting fire prevention and rescue services to the saranac lake, ny area

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7
Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Ambulance service and other first-aid services to the residents of the town of gates and spencerport and neighboring towns as needed.

Health
8
Saranac Lake Adult Center Inc

To provide a multi-purpose facility for senior citizens to become informed about and receive services unique to their needs. to provide them with vital transportation services. provide meals in a social setting and those who are house…

Human Services
9
Queensbury Emergency Medical Svcs Inc

Provides emergency medical services to residents in the town of queensbury.

Health
10
Greater Hudson Heritage Network

To provide services and assistance to historical agencies and museums.

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11
Ausable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Volunteer ambulance squad providing emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Getzville Fire Company Inc

To provide firefighting and first aid to residents of getzville, new york.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Association of Glens Falls Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sandy Hill Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%7%5–10yr22%15%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr20%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%2%5–10yr22%25%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr20%35%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
8%
162/2,054

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.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 115 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
46/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Servants of the Word Inc — $224,543 · OtherServants of the Word IncGansevoort Cemetery Inc — $112,719 · OtherGansevoort Cemetery IncFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $111,696 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $73,238 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $72,449 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $63,199 · Other+60 more — $1,203,063 · Other+60 moreGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $505,299 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FO…GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL — $190,551 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSPITALUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE TRI - COUNTIES INC — $65,870 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY A…WEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC — $35,000 · HealthGRANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $32,000 · Health+6 more — $103,951 · Health+6 moreFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $198,900 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COA…The Lake George Association Inc — $198,900 · Arts & CultureThe Lake George …THE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST — $58,029 · Arts & CultureTHE HYDE COLLECT…Historic Salem Courthouse Preservation Assocation Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Salem C…+13 more — $139,125 · Arts & Culture+13 moreTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK — $198,900 · EducationTRUSTEES …CRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY — $101,032 · EducationCRANDALL …ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $67,050 · EducationADIRONDAC…+1 more — $7,500 · EducationFAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF GLENS FALLS INC — $113,575 · Human ServicesQUEENSBURY SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $82,304 · Human ServicesCIVIC CENTER OF MOREAU INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN — $23,000 · Human ServicesWARREN-WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR YOUTH — $12,050 · Human Services+6 more — $56,500 · Human ServicesREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $110,267 · Food & NutritionCOMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $40,200 · Food & NutritionSALEM FOOD PANTRY — $12,000 · Food & NutritionGFCSD BACKPACK PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionUS CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO FOUNDATION — $98,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,860,907Health$932,671Arts & Culture$644,954Education$374,482Human Services$337,429Food & Nutrition$172,467Philanthropy$98,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $505,299 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetServants of the Word Inc — $224,543 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK — $198,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $198,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL — $190,551 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF GLENS FALLS INC — $113,575 over 9y, 11% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $110,267 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCRANDALL PUBLIC LIBRARY — $101,032 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUS CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO FOUNDATION — $98,000 over 5y, 62% of budgetQUEENSBURY SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $82,304 over 7y, 13% of budgetTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $73,238 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $67,050 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE TRI - COUNTIES INC — $65,870 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HYDE COLLECTION TRUST — $58,029 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHistoric Salem Courthouse Preservation Assocation Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC — $48,971 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS INC — $47,300 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM — $46,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWARRENWASHINGTON COUNTY HOMELESS YOUTH COALITION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRANVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $40,609 over 2y, 35% of budgetCOMFORT FOOD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $40,200 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH GRANVILLE HOSE CO INC — $39,685 over 2y, 22% of budgetWEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCIVIC CENTER OF MOREAU INC — $35,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGRANVILLE ENGINE & HOSE CO NO1 — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGRANVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $32,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetALCOHOL & SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENT- ION COUNCIL OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC — $27,720 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONKLING CENTER INC — $23,720 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN — $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER GLENS FALLS SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGlens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc — $18,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Sandy Hill Foundation — $18,347 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHAYNES HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $17,524 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetGLENS FALLS-QUEENSBURY HISTORICAL ASSOC INC — $16,265 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORK AND INDEPENDENCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN-WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarcella Sembrich Memorial Assoc Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetADIRONDACK SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INC — $14,950 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWORLD AWARENESS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $14,750 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAdirondack Theatre Festival Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTOGETHER FOR YOUTH — $12,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Charles R Wood Founda…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…Cloudsplitter Foundat…Alfred Z Solomon Test…Adirondack FoundationTri-County United Way…Leo Cox Beach Philant…Washington County Hom…The Touba Family Foun…Capital District Phys…
Charles R Wood FoundationDE96.6× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles R Wood Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Adirondack Foundation · Tri-County United Way Inc · Leo Cox Beach Philanthropic Found · Washington County Home for Aged Women Inc · The Touba Family Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan 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 Glens Falls Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Glens Falls Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Glens Falls Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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