· Public charity
Northern New York Library Network
The NORTHERN NEW YORK LIBRARY NETWORK is a regional non-profit multi-type library agency dedicated to distributing resources and services among its members in the 10,636 square mile, seven-county area known as the north country.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $36,818 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,837 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,019 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LAWRENCE CENTER FOR HISTORY & CULTURE | $12,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $11,733 |
| SUNY POTSDAM LIBRARY | $7,085 |
| CANTON FREE LIBRARY | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 90% of your 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +3%- HSHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +158%
- SLST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TLTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -22%
- OCOSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +207%
- RPROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +25%
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.
Public library, museum and local history archives
Preservation & maintenance collection
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 a full service library for the town of lagrange, ny and the surrounding communities
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
Support saratoga springs public library operations
Operation of roseau county museum along with acquisition, maintenance, preservation, and display of other items of historic interest to the county of roseau
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
Library Association To help patrons obtain information that meets their personal, educational and professional needs.
The mission of the norwood public library is to assure effective, expanding free library services for the residents of the library district through educational, informational, and cultural resources and activities.
The purpose of the Library is to provide literary/computer resources & Services for Lewis County Residents and surrounding Communities for educational purposes
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Country Library System and the most unlike its peers is Tupper Lake Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CANTON FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER ADIRONDACK REGIONAL CENTER FOR HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Keene Valley Library Association ↗
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: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Library Network 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.