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Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k127 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SIENA COLLEGE | $47,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK | $15,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH OF NORTHEAST NEW YORK | $12,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH OF NORTHEAST NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC | $10,000 |
| VANDERHEYDEN | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ATTN LIZZIE HUNTER RWB | $9,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| SCHENECTADY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CONNECT CENTER FOR YOUTH | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AIM SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
143 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 40 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- SUSIENA UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +17%
- HVHUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +237%
- VHVANDERHEYDEN HALL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- JHJAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%
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.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Conducts fundraising and other recreational activities on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities in saratoga county, new york.
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
Community health action of staten island' drives dramatic improvements in the health of new yorkers.
The organization's mission is to assist individuals to discover their own personal achievement through habilitation. the development of all services is based upon the talents, dreams, wishes and desires of the people we serve. we envision…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Service of Schenectady and the most unlike its peers is Capital Region Classic Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 270 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 SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds AIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LANSINGBURGH BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC RENSSELAER COUNTY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Center for Children ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHD RECREATION CTR INC HOPE 7 COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The McCarthy Charities Inc · Bbl Charitable Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Capital Communications Cares 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 Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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