New York · Public charity
Preservation League of New York State
Promoting historic preservation as a tool to revitalize our neighborhoods and communities, honor our heritgage and enrich our lives.
- $353k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $200k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,090
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Preservation League of New York State funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $200k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $292k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $325k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $330k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $294k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $317k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $265k | 98% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $226k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oneida Community Mansion House | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Whallonsburg Grange Hall Inc | $34,068 | 1 | 42% |
| Ascendant Neighborhood Development Corporation | $34,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Dutchess County Art Association Inc | $30,250 | 3 | 10% |
| South East Area Coalition Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Preservation Buffalo Niagara | $28,992 | 3 | 4% |
| Greece Historical Society | $28,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Earlville Opera House Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Old Westbury Gardens Inc | $27,746 | 3 | 0% |
| Village of Naples | $26,950 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 223 grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Preservation League of New York State supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · New York Council for the Humanities · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Arts Mid-Hudson Inc · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Preservation League of New York State
- How much does Preservation League of New York State give?
- Preservation League of New York State reported 15 itemized grants totaling $199,720, out of $353,498 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Preservation League of New York State fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Environment (8%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Preservation League of New York State's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oneida Community Mansion House ($60k), Whallonsburg Grange Hall Inc ($34k), Ascendant Neighborhood Development Corporation ($34k).
- Does Preservation League of New York State fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Preservation League of New York State?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William G Pomeroy Foundation, Greater Hudson Heritage Network, New York Council for the Humanities.
- Where is Preservation League of New York State based?
- Preservation League of New York State is based in NY.
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