· Private foundation
Mercury Aircraft Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAYLOR HEALTH CENTER | $45,000 |
| GLENN H CURTISS MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $14,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $14,000 |
| WELLSPRING FELLOWSHIP OF HAMMONDSPORT | $14,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
| FRED & HARRIETT TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| HAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $7,500 |
| ALFRED UNIVERITY | $5,000 |
| FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| KEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HAMMONDSPORT JOINT FUND DRIVE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KHKEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +195%
- FHFRED & HARRIETT TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +38%
- HCHAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- KSKEUKA SAILING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $212
- TBTURTLE BEACH YOUTH FUNDone grant, 2021 · $150
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.
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.
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
Public library for the city of fulton, ny.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
With over a century of service to the greater utica area, the library remains dedicated to providing information and learning experiences throughout our diverse community.
Cooperative library system
The purpose and mission of the fenton history center is to provide education and cultural opportunities for the residents of chautauqua county and its visitors through the collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts and archival…
Public library
Library Association To help patrons obtain information that meets their personal, educational and professional needs.
Preserve the history of walton through preservation of documents photos genealogy artifacts. the society publishes of local history interets related to the history of walton ny
Free public library serving the deruyter, ny community
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KEUKA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRED & HARRIETT TAYLOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAMMONDSPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEUKA LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES SPCA 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.
Open a dossier: The Meade Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mercury Aircraft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercury Aircraft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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