· Private foundation
Ralph R Wilkins Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $4,500 |
| TAYLOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| TULLY UNITED COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,500 |
| JM MURRAY CENTER | $3,300 |
| LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER | $3,000 |
| CORTLANDVILLE FIRE DEPT | $2,500 |
| McGRAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES | $2,500 |
| GROTON CITY UNITED CHURCH | $2,500 |
| MCGRAWVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,250 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,100 |
| YWCA OF CORTLAND | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORTLAND | $2,000 |
| CORTLAND CHENANGO RURAL SERVICES | $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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- CLCORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%
- YCYWCA CORTLAND5× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +29%
- JMJM MURRAY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CPCortland Pregnancy Centerone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CBCortland Bible Clubone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Capco is dedicated to providing and advocating for community-wide actions and programs that increase individuals' dignity and self-reliance and improve community conditions, engaging all sectors of the community in cortland county's fight…
To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County
To own and operate a facility in the Cortland Area for the advancement of sports and recreational activites of the youth and other residents of the community.
The Cortland Regional Sports Council, Inc. was formed to promote and develop sport, athletic and recreational opportunities, events, competitions, and educational opportunities for Cortland County, New York.
To provide the community with a free public library
To provide a public library for the cohocton ny residence
Operation of a free public library.
Public library, museum and local history archives
To provide library services free of charge to the residents of the City of Corry and surrounding communities
To attract and promote business in cortland county through social events, seminars, and other networking actvities
The Foundation's major purpose is to provide grants and contributions for civic, educational and charitable programs, and for community development and low cost housing initiatives within the local community of Cortland, New York.
Cooperative library system
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way for Cortland County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matthew 25 Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 34. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 101 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 CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CORTLAND ↗
- Who funds JM MURRAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND RURAL CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR CORTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
- Who funds LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS COLLEGE ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Cortland Community Foundation · The Siegle Foundation Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Brockway Foundation for the Needy of the Village and Township of Homer Ny · Finger Lakes Library System · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ralph R Wilkins 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.
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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