· Public charity
Lake Placid Education Foundation
Grants are made to schools, both public and private, for many different purposes, including scholarships, equipment, operating expenses or other special needs.libraries are supported through grants for collection additions, special studies, staff training, operations, equipment, etc.arts and other cultural organizations are aided for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $193,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $162,050 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE PLACID CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC | $20,000 |
| LAKE PLACID PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOLCAMP TREETOPS | $20,000 |
| LAKE PLACID CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| ST AGNES SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THOMAS A SHIPMAN MEMORIAL YOUTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| SARANAC LAKE CENTRAL PRIZE FUND | $10,000 |
| LAKE PLACID-NORTH ELBA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| JOHN BROWN LIVES | $7,000 |
| BRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TLTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +737%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +75%
- LPLake Placid Public Library5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- JBJOHN BROWN LIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue +236%
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.
Public library
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
To provide the community with the materials and the professional,caring staff assistance they need to help them gain knowledge, broaden their lives, and fulfill their cultural, intellectual, educational and recreational needs through free…
To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.
Promote and support the town of north castle public library
To provide historical education and information of the town of ticonderoga and the lower adirondack region of new york state.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
The north country library system is governed by the education law and other laws of nys and provides library services to the general public through its member libraries located in jefferson county, lewis county, st. lawrence county, and…
The mission of the norwood public library is to assure effective, expanding free library services for the residents of the library district through educational, informational, and cultural resources and activities.
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…
Public lending library
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 North Country Community College Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Placid Public Library ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE PLACID SINFONIETTA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THOMAS SHIPMAN MEMORIAL YOUTH CTR I ↗
- Who funds CLINTON-ESSEX-FRANKLIN LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BRUCE L CRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lake PlacidNorth Elba Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN LIVES 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: Adirondack Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Henry Uihlein II and Mildred a Uihlein Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lake Placid Education 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.
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.