· Private foundation
Lindau Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CTR | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SUNY CORNING COMMUNITY COLLETE | $4,000 |
| ARNOT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $3,600 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $3,500 |
| BAMPA'S HOUSE | $3,475 |
| GUTHRIE FOUNDATION | $3,200 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEMUNG CONTY | $3,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY 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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -4% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CCCHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CTR9× · 2017–2025 · $151k
- ECELMIRA COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2018–2025 · $18k
Funded once
- GCGUTHRIE CORNING HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NSNEW SONGone grant, 2020 · $3k
- EPELDRIDGE PARK CAROUSEL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -49%
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.
Community foundation of elmira-corning and the finger lakes, inc. helps realize the potential in our community by matching the generosity of our donors with the community's greatest needs. our grants and scholarships support the people of…
The corporation was established to combat the problem of vacant and abandoned properties in chemung county and the city of elmira and facilitate the return of vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties to productive use.
Care and preservation of hanford mills museum at east meredith, ny
The Erie Community College Foundation raises funds for scholarships, capital projects, faculty enrichment programs and innovative educational and workforce development initiatives. The Foundation supports alumni and former students through…
Secure funds for continued operation of Elmview
To provide the community with medical and ambulance services
To benefit the hocking valley community hospital
To solicit, accept, hold, invest, reinvest, and administer any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts, and property of any sort, without limitation as to amount or value, and to use, disburse or donate the income or principal thereof…
To provide nutritious meals for homebound individuals who are ill, elderly.
Raising funding and awareness for Cancer research in the greater Rochester, NY area.
Our mission is to partner with each person we serve in order to maximize their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Arnot Ogden Medical Center is a not-for-profit, 225-bed tertiary medical facility with more than 115…
Granting student scholarships and contributions to college
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Chemung County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARNOT OGDEN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEMUNG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDRIDGE PARK CAROUSEL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELMIRA HEIGHTS ROTARY FOU ↗
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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · The Anderson Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · 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 Lindau Foundation Inc 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.
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