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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.

$353k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEnvironment$182kCommunity Improvement$105kHousing & Shelter$73kPublic Benefit$71kEducation$48kPhilanthropy$21kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $199,720, the rows itemized in this filing. The $353,498 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,778 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
$13,090
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF PHELPS$20,000
SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VILLAGE OF NAPLES: $18k → 10%VILLAGE OF AVON: $13k → 11%EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC: $20k → 11%BUFFALO LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $14k → 13%OTSEGO 2000: $13k → 13%FRIENDS OF PARROTT HALL: $13k → 14%HISTORIC AMSTERDAM LEAGUE: $15k → 14%HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL: $14k → 17%EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL FARM MUSEUM: $14k → 7%DUTCHESS COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION DBA BARRETT ART CENTER: $16k → 9%LEROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 10%HUBBARD HALL CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION: $12k → 11%PHILMONT BEAUTIFICATION INC: $14k → 11%SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 12%LOCUST STREET NEIGHBORHOOD ART CLASSES INC: $14k → 13%THE BUTTERNUT VALLEY ARTS & CRAFTS CENTER INC: $18k → 13%AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY: $12k → 14%NIAGARA ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $14k → 14%EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 7%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $15k → 9%SMITHFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $13k → 11%TROY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15k → 11%WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC: $34k → 13%VILLAGE OF WEST WINFIELD: $19k → 13%COUNTY OF CLINTON: $12k → 14%WEST HARLEM COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ORGANIZATION: $12k → 17%OLD WESTBURY GARDENS INC: $15k → 6%CUNNEEN HACKETT ARTS CENTER: $13k → 9%TOWN OF PHELPS: $20k → 10%ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE: $27k → 11%RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 11%PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $20k → 13%HISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%RENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%VILLAGE OF LAKEWOOD: $13k → 18%OLD WESTBURY GARDENS INC: $12k → 6%TOWN OF CANANDAIGUA: $15k → 10%ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE: $25k → 11%HIGHLAND PARK CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE: $12k → 6%ASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12k → 17%TOWN OF CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 9%GREECE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%VILLAGE OF VICTOR: $15k → 10%GREECE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 14%SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION: $20k → 14%CITY OF COHOES: $17k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Preservation League of New York State’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 90%.

Preservation League of New York Statelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 42 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
179

Total granted

$849k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+41%

Still filing today

86%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OC
    ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +51%
  • SOUTH EAST AREA COALITION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +190%
  • PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA
    3× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WG
    WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +55% · 42% of their budget
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF WEST WINFIELD
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
  • CO
    CITY OF COHOES
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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2
Albion Historical Society

To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion

Arts & Culture
3
Fulton County Historical Society

Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.

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4
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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5
The Historical Society of Rockland

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.

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6
Newcomb Historical Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Sharon Historical Society-Sharon Springs New York Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and T

Educate the community on the history of newburgh bay and the highlands

Arts & Culture
9
Johnstown Historical Society
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10
White Plains Masonic Historical Society
Education
11
Croatoan Archaeological Society

curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history

Arts & Culture
12
North Shore Historical Museum Inc

Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rensselaer County Historical Society Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/148
Grantees still filing
103/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+118 more: $1,174,034 · Other+118 moreONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSEWHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC: $34,068 · Arts & CultureGreece Historical Society: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSeward House Museum: $24,000 · Arts & CultureSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+55 more: $498,225 · Arts & Culture+55 moreSOUTH EAST AREA COALITION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $26,223 · Community ImprovementPHILMONT BEAUTIFICATION INC: $24,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GREATER RIDGEWOOD RESTORATION CORP: $18,000 · Community ImprovementJAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION: $13,436 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATIO N ASSOCIATION INC: $10,800 · Community ImprovementJAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity District Community Developmen: $10,000 · Community ImprovementELMIRA DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT INC: $6,795 · Community Improvement+3 more: $13,796 · Community ImprovementTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $24,070 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentHighland Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentJefferson Historical Society: $14,570 · EnvironmentMADOO CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,000 · Housing & ShelterELMIRA COLLEGE: $12,800 · EducationWESTERN NEW YORK MINORITY MEDIA PROFESSIONALS INC: $10,000 · EducationRENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc: $9,440 · Philanthropy
Other$1,174,034Arts & Culture$667,293Community Improvement$163,050Environment$76,640Housing & Shelter$34,000Education$22,800Philanthropy$21,440

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE: $60,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetWHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL INC: $34,068 over 1y, 42% of budgetASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetDutchess County Art Association Inc: $30,250 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTH EAST AREA COALITION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetPRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $28,992 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetEARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC: $28,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $27,746 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $26,223 over 4y, 55% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $24,070 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPHILMONT BEAUTIFICATION INC: $24,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSeward House Museum: $24,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHUBBARD HALL PROJECTS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTOWN OF CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAlbany County Historical Association: $19,600 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $19,560 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREATER RIDGEWOOD RESTORATION CORP: $18,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetONTARIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,740 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM: $17,690 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC: $17,600 over 3y, 14% of budgetSilver Lake Institute Inc: $15,520 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHighland Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetJefferson Historical Society: $14,570 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF LONG ISLAND INC: $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOCUST STREET NEIGHBORHOOD ART CLASSES INC: $14,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBUFFALO LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SHAKER HERITAGE SOCIETY: $14,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC: $14,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHUDSON ATHENS LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $14,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $13,600 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $13,440 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION: $13,436 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCUNNEEN HACKETT CULTURAL CENTER INC CUNNEEN-HACKETT ARTS CENTER: $13,320 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $13,191 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $12,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOTSEGO 2000 INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRensselaerville Library: $12,104 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY: $12,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGOWANDA'S HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD THEATER LTD: $11,400 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE JOHN GREEN PRESERVATION COALITION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetCOBBLESTONE SOCIETY: $10,900 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATIO N ASSOCIATION INC: $10,800 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The William G Pomeroy…Greater Hudson Herita…New York Council for …JM McDonald Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Robert David Lion Gar…Community Foundation …Price Chopper's Golub…Central New York Comm…Arts Mid-Hudson IncDavid & Candace Weir …Max and Marian Farash…
The William G Pomeroy FoundationNY76.1× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Preservation League of New York State funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Preservation League of New York State. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 232 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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