· Public charity
Operation Northern Comfort Inc
Provides labor and resources for the construction and repair of homes to improve the living environment of people in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $8,200 |
| PGR FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FRANCIS HOUSE | $2,000 |
| TILLIE'S TOUCH | $1,973 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Operation Northern Comfort Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +225% since the first grant, against +120% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- IMIN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC3× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +205%
- IWINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +225%
- TTTillies Touch2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- LMLe Moyne Collegeone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- SJST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Our Mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
The mission of Faith in New York is to equip congregations and develop grassroots leaders to move significant public policy change that supports our leaders vision of a more just New York City with excellent public schools, violence-free…
Koinonia Primary Care, Inc. (Koinonia) is a NYS Diagnostic and Treatment Center that provides quality patient centered healthcare to the underserved in the capital region of New York State
To support and stengthen the Christian ministries of Perinton by providing a service of care to terminally ill people.
Light Hill is a compassionate comfort care home supporting the terminally ill. Our caring home affirms life, hope and meaning for all who enter: our guests approaching the final stages of life, their families, visitors, staff and…
Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.
The Mission is dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed. The ministries of the City Mission of Schenectady seek to comprehensively meet the needs of the poor in a manner that dignifies and strengthens the…
The College is a liberal arts institution committed to fostering academic excellence and to provide high educational opportunities for a diverse population with disparate levels of academic preparation.
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is dedicated to helping those in need who live, work, or go to school on Manhattan's East Side, primarily the Upper East Side, and to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families in its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Works of Central New York and the most unlike its peers is Port Dickinson Community Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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
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 IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PGR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Tillies Touch ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PORT DICKINSON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Operation Northern Comfort 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.
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.
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