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Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$403k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$228k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.2MCommunity Improvement$605kArts & Culture$313kEducation$240kHealth$172kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kYouth Development$11kMembership Benefit$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $303k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIDLAKES JR FOUNDATION: $51k → 10%GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $15k → 14%MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $45k → 10%GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $15k → 14%MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40k → 10%GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $11k → 14%CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $20k → 10%MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 10%MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 10%ORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $11k → 10%ORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $11k → 10%CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $10k → 10%CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING CHURCH COMMUNITY CARE: $10k → 10%CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $10k → 10%MIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 10%CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $10k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $511k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $356k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $294k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $228k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $202k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $186k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $167k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $148k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $123k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $78k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $76k → 10%VILLAGE OF PHELPS: $63k → 10%PHELPS ART CENTER: $56k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $56k → 10%PHELPS ART CENTER: $55k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $53k → 10%VILLAGE OF PHELPS: $34k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $33k → 10%VILLAGE OF PHELPS: $25k → 10%TOWN OF PHELPS: $24k → 10%PHELPS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE: $23k → 10%TOWN OF PHELPS: $19k → 10%PHELPS COMMUNITY MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $15k → 10%PHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $15k → 10%PHELPS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 10%VILLAGE OF PHELPS: $9k → 10%THE PARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY: $60k → 10%THE PARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY: $15k → 10%CORNELL COOPERATE EXT OF ONT CTY: $10k → 10%CORNELL COOPERATIVE: $10k → 10%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 24 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$3.5M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+69%

Still filing today

38%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • PC
    PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +196% · 33% of their budget
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +22%
  • GC
    GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM
    3× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MJ
    MIDLAKES JR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • PL
    PHELPS LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +1%
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
Phelps County Senior Citizen Center Inc

To offer programs & services to older persons so they can stay in their own homes and remain independent.

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2
The Phelps Mansion Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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4
Phelps Mill Country

The organizatioin operates a two day festival providing the means to promote the arts which is the purpose of the organization.

Arts & Culture
5
Ontario County Historical Society

Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.

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6
Phillips Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting, rescue, and emergency medical services

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7
Fowler-Center Twp Vol Fire Dept

Fire protection for the town of fowler & center township

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Phelps County Historical Society

Public Museum dba as Nebraska Prairie Museum Depicts the history of Phelps County. Displays are expanded and improved on a regular basis.

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9
Phillipsburg Senior Center Inc

Senior citizens recreation and education services

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10
Genesee Library

Operate a free public library

Education
11
Hopewell Depot Museum

Preservation of the railroad history of hopewell junction and dutchess county

Arts & Culture
12
Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Historical Society Inc

Museum of lighthouse and marine artifacts

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 41 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,044,945 · Recreation & SportsPHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC+1 more: $15,900 · Recreation & SportsMIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $142,000 · OtherMIDLAKES SCHOLARSHIP…Individual grant recipient: $134,657 · OtherIndividual grant rec…CLIFTON SPRINGS HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $60,000 · OtherCLIFTON SPRINGS HOSP…MIDLAKES JR FOUNDATION: $51,095 · OtherMIDLAKES JR FOUNDATI…ORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $46,874 · OtherORLEANS CEMETERY ASS…Individual grant recipient: $42,630 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Individual grant recipient: $22,960 · Other+24 more: $161,017 · Other+24 morePHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $600,908 · Community ImprovementPHELPS BUSINESS DE…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPHELPS ART CENTER INC: $125,705 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $41,000 · Arts & CulturePHELPS COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $83,500 · HealthHOUSE OF JOHN INC: $23,500 · HealthOAKS CORNERS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $3,047 · Public Safety & Disaster
Recreation & Sports$2,060,845Other$661,233Community Improvement$605,908Arts & Culture$177,705Health$107,000Public Safety & Disaster$3,047

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,044,945 over 8y, 33% of budgetPHELPS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $600,908 over 8y, 77% of budgetPHELPS ART CENTER INC: $125,705 over 7y, 93% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $83,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $41,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF JOHN INC: $23,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetONTARIO PATHWAYS INC: $15,900 over 3y, 16% of budgetPHELPS LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPHELPS COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKS CORNERS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $3,047 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC: $170 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Liskmorris Foundation…United Way of Greater…JM McDonald Foundatio…Rochester Area Commun…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Liskmorris Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to Mary Hicks Preston Historical Improvement & Betterment 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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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