· Private foundation
Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER | $227,640 |
| PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $75,812 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,130 |
| CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY | $8,500 |
| ORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,000 |
| ONTARIO PATHWAYS INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,800 |
| HOUSE OF JOHN | $3,750 |
| CLIFTON SPRINGS ROTARY CHARITIES | $2,250 |
| PHELPS ART CENTER | $1,295 |
| GYPSUM CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS | $170 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170 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
- PCPHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +196% · 33% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +7%
- GCGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM3× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MJMIDLAKES JR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $51k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $23k
- PLPHELPS LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
To offer programs & services to older persons so they can stay in their own homes and remain independent.
The phelps mansion museum will utilize and preserve its unique victorian facility and collections to serve the publice through regular tours, exhibits and programs emphasizing local history, education, literature, art and music.
The organizatioin operates a two day festival providing the means to promote the arts which is the purpose of the organization.
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
Fire fighting, rescue, and emergency medical services
Fire protection for the town of fowler & center township
Public Museum dba as Nebraska Prairie Museum Depicts the history of Phelps County. Displays are expanded and improved on a regular basis.
Senior citizens recreation and education services
Operate a free public library
Preservation of the railroad history of hopewell junction and dutchess county
Museum of lighthouse and marine artifacts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phelps Library. 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 41 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 PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF JOHN INC ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds OAKS CORNERS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
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.
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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 Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment 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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