· Private foundation
Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KEYS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| ORDER OF ST THOMAS MORE (NOTRE DAME) | $5,400 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $5,000 |
| SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $2,500 |
| ST LUCY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FRANCIS HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CAZCARES INC | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC | $1,500 |
| CAZENOVIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAZENOVIA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE | $500 |
| GIVING TREE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO | $500 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 7 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +36%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +8%
- BWBALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $47k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BABSK ASSISTANCE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1k
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2017 · $500
- TLTHE LORETTO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +62%
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.
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Ministers to inpatients and outpatients, serving a primary care and specialty referral center for people from all faiths living in chemung county and the surrounding counties of new york and pennsylvania
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cazenovia Lake Association. 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 50 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 94 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 CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CazCares Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA AREA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Cazenovia Preservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cazenovia Public Library Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CNY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF CNY INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Bereaved Inc ↗
- Who funds ELMCREST CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SYRACUSE NY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Howard Drescher Foundation · United Way of Central New York 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 Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable 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.
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% 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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