· Private foundation
Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $85,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| BROOME COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC | $15,000 |
| BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SACRED HEART UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,000 |
| SUNY BROOME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC | $10,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS ARTS CENTER | $8,000 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| BRUNSWICK SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-BROOME COUNTY OFFICE | $5,000 |
| DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +20%
- RMROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +229%
- UHUNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +22%
- DSDELBARTON SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT OFFICEone grant, 2022 · $10k
The Trustees of Princeton Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +51%
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 96 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 UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Broome County Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN TIER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BINGHAMTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HANDWEAVING MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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 Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Bgm Foundation · The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · The Victor& Esther Rozen Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Raymond Foundation · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc: 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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