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Lyndonville Area 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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$439kHealth$238kRecreation & Sports$156kEnvironment$131kArts & Culture$107kHuman Services$53kFood & Nutrition$51kYouth Development$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Genesee Orleans Go Art$50,000
Orleans Community Health$25,000
Individual grant recipient$13,500
Yates Community Library$13,000
Lyndonville Lions Club$12,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Wreaths Across America$3,910
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE OF ORLEANS: $10k → 11%Hospice of Orleans: $6k → 11%Senior Citizens of Western Orleans: $500 → 11%Project Stork: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 15 repeat orgs$465k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
99

Total granted

$775k
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+2%

Still filing today

27%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OC
    ORLEANS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $213k · revenue +18%
  • YC
    Yates Community Library
    4× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +45%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF ORLEANS INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • LY
    Lyndonville Youth Football
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • ES
    East Shelby Fire Company
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • OO
    Oak Orchard Health
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lake Plains Community Care Network Inc

To preserve Rural Health Care by Promoting Wellness and Ensuring Access to Quality Local Care

Health
2
North Shore Volunteer Emergency Squad

We are a volunteer-based professional organization that provides prehospital medical care to the citizens of the North Shore of Oneida Lake, and surrounding areas. We provide skilled, compassionate basic and advanced life support services,…

Health
3
West Monroe Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide Fire, EMS, and Water Rescue to the town of West Monroe in Oswego County NY

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
5
Argyle Emergency Squad Inc

Currently comprised of 38 volunteer members, providing prompt skillful emergency medical service to the people of the Village and Town of Argyle, the Town of Hartford & vicinity in Washington County, State of New York.

Health
6
Onesquethaw Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Providing fire protection, ambulance services and rescue services in the Onesquethaw Fire Protection District of the Town of New Scotland.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Bolton Emergency Medical Services Inc

Emergency medical services including rescue and ambulance services are provided within the Bolton Emergency Medical Services district located in the Town of Bolton, NY

Health
8
Community Care of Western New York Inc

HomeCare & Hospice helps maintain independence at home with compassion in communities throughout Allegany, Cattaraugus, Genesee and Wyoming counties

Health
9
Town of Wallkill Vol Ambulance Corps Inc

To provide emergency medical services and medical transport for patients in need of medical attention, regardless of their ability to pay.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
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
11
Upper Country Eldercare Coalition Inc dba Salubria Center

To meet the medical, health, and wellness needs for the elderly and handicapped.

Housing & Shelter
12
Waterford Rescue Squad Inc

Ambulance and rescue service for town of waterford, new york

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orleans Community Health; the most unlike its peers is Yates Community Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $131,078 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLYNDONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL: $86,430 · OtherLYNDONVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOLLyndonville Lions Club: $77,650 · OtherLyndonville Lions ClubIndividual grant recipient: $71,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGenesee Orleans Go Art: $50,000 · OtherWreaths Across America: $41,001 · Other+111 more: $496,813 · Other+111 moreORLEANS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $212,600 · HealthORLEANS COMMUNITY H…Yates Community Library: $49,390 · EducationLYNDONVILLE MUSIC BOOSTERS: $2,500 · EducationHOSPICE OF ORLEANS INC: $16,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesShake on the Lake Inc: $4,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$954,472Health$212,600Education$51,890Human Services$17,000Arts & Culture$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORLEANS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $212,600 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYates Community Library: $49,390 over 4y, 22% of budgetHOSPICE OF ORLEANS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGenesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc: $8,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRidgeway Volunteer Fire Co: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetShake on the Lake Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ORLEANS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Yates Community Library ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lyndonville Area Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyndonville Area Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lyndonville Area Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lyndonville Area Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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