· Private foundation
Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNY ONEONTA | $8,000 |
| SUNY DELHI | $5,000 |
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HARTWICK COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Morrisville College Fdn | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL | $5,000 |
| HANCOCK COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL FDN | $5,000 |
| The Norwich Family YMCA | $4,000 |
| COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NORWICH | $3,209 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| HALOS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HCHartwick College8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +16%
- CCCOLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL7× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +29%
- PVPATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +48%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegeone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +12%
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in 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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is The Chenango Valley Home Inc Dba the Chenango Valley Apartments. 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 71 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 113 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 Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HANCOCK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds Richfield Springs Youth Ministry Corp ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALOS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF NORWICH ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: The Greater Norwich Foundation · The R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Nycm Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation · The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Everett & Pearl Gilmour Foundation Inc
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 Otis a Thompson 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.
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