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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $199,720 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $353,498 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $153,778 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF PHELPS | $20,000 |
| THE BUTTERNUT VALLEY ARTS & CRAFTS CENTER INC | $18,280 |
| OLD WESTBURY GARDENS INC | $15,396 |
| VILLAGE OF VICTOR | $15,000 |
| EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL FARM MUSEUM | $14,400 |
| EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $13,440 |
| RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $13,090 |
| LEROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,880 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE TOWN OF CHESTER | $10,750 |
| PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS HERITAGE COUNCIL INC | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF WEST WINFIELD | $9,896 |
| SILVER LAKE INSTITUTE | $9,520 |
| TOWN OF JAY NY | $9,500 |
| BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,568 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of your 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 7% of Preservation League of New York State’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 90% — 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.
42 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- OCONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE3× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +51%
SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +190%
PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA3× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- WGWHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +55% · 42% of their budget
- VOVILLAGE OF WEST WINFIELDone grant, 2023 · $19k
- COCITY OF COHOESone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Preservation & maintenance collection
To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
Educate the community on the history of newburgh bay and the highlands
curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history
To preserve all documents to educate, engage and inform the residents and visitors concerning Wilmington, the Whiteface Mountain Region and the Adirondack community.
Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rensselaer County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Voelker Orth Museum. 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 148 of the 232 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 ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Dutchess County Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Greece Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS HERITAGE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILMONT BEAUTIFICATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seward House Museum ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PARROTT HALL INC ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD HALL PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Albany County Historical Association ↗
- Who funds THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER RIDGEWOOD RESTORATION CORP ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Silver Lake Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Ontario County Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds Jefferson 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 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
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 Preservation League of New York State 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.