· Community foundation
Northern New York Community Foundation Inc
To inspire and celebrate giving, steward resources honorably, and foster vibrant north country communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 112 grants below total $2,673,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,475,553 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,801,807 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERTOWN FAMILY YMCA | $173,125 |
| CITY OF WATERTOWN | $147,067 |
| WILDERNESS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION - HYNES | $137,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WATERTOWN | $120,581 |
| ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM | $112,140 |
| WATERTOWN URBAN MISSION | $83,724 |
| LOWVILLE ACADEMY AND CENTRAL SCHOOL | $71,429 |
| UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SACKETS HARBOR | $61,308 |
| JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $59,500 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE FOUNDATION | $58,250 |
| THE ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN NEW YORK | $56,650 |
| HAMMOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $53,970 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS ARTS CENTER | $51,900 |
| JEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT - DEPARTMENT 825434 | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY WATERTOWN CORPS | $46,750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 26 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
- RHRIVER HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
- SMSAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2018–2023 · $752k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TJTHE JRC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $100k
- HHHEUVELTON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +15% · 47% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF CVRCHone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
Tlc health network's mission is to provide a diverse range of quality healthcare services throughout western new york while adhering to the values upon which we were founded:integrity - compassion - accountability - respect - excellence
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
Cooperative library system
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
To provide services and assistance to historical agencies and museums.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Lawrence Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Compassionate Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
163 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. 163 of the 260 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN URBAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEWIS COUNTY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC JEFFERSON-ST LAWRENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORETTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAPE VINCENT COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HANDWEAVING MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Double Play Sports Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEUVELTON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern New Yorkinc · The Delaney Bay Fund Inc · The Sweetgrass Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pratt-Northam Foundation · Jane E Deline Foundation · St Lawrence County Ida - Local Development Corporation · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundation
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 Northern New York Community 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.
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 0% of income from government
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.