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Operation Northern Comfort Inc

Provides labor and resources for the construction and repair of homes to improve the living environment of people in need.

$16k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,200
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$109k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Operation Northern Comfort Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20235$16k40%
FY20222$3k50%
FY20214$4k25%
FY20203$8k100%
FY201810$15k60%
FY20175$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$25kEducation$10kYouth Development$8kReligion$8kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$300Health$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Operation Northern Comfort Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIn My Father's Kitchen Inc: $16,851 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFood Bank of Central New York: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPgr Foundation Inc: $5,350 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLe Moyne College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Works of Central New York: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTillies Touch: $2,482 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFrancis House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellhouse Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPort Dickinson Community Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Operation Northern Comfort Inc?

Find your warmest path to Operation Northern Comfort Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Operation Northern Comfort Inc

How much does Operation Northern Comfort Inc give?
Operation Northern Comfort Inc reported 5 grants totaling $16,173 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Operation Northern Comfort Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (43%), Education (18%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Operation Northern Comfort Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: In My Father's Kitchen Inc ($17k), Food Bank of Central New York ($8k), Pgr Foundation Inc ($5k).
Does Operation Northern Comfort Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Operation Northern Comfort Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Operation Northern Comfort Inc based?
Operation Northern Comfort Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $17k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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