· Private foundation
Renaissance Corporation of Albany
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $33,975 |
| UNIVERSITY ALBANY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY | $7,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE FOR ADULTS INC | $4,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH | $2,595 |
| NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| SHALOM FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| ST MARGARET'S CENTER | $2,000 |
| ISRAEL AME CHURCH | $1,500 |
| LIFE PATH (FORMERLY SENIOR SERVICES OF ALBANY) | $1,250 |
| VANDERHEYDEN HALL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALBANY | $1,000 |
| ALBANY LAW SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WILDWOOD | $1,000 |
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UAUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +169%
- ACALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +14%
- NRNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RSRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +47%
- FCFRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -47%
- OHONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN - APEX CENTER DONATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
An academic health sciences system whose responsibilities are to provide a broad range of patient services to the people of eastern new york and western new england.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide food and auxiliary services (vending, bookstore, linen, etc) to faculty, staff, and students at the university at albany.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce 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 42 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 62 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 UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BABY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EQUINOX INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY FUND FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Bbl Charitable Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Review Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Rose & Kiernan Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Charles L Touhey and Alice P Green Foundation Inc
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 Renaissance Corporation of Albany 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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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