· Private foundation
Richard S Shineman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k74 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CNY (2-YEAR PLEDGEAPRIL 2024DECEMBER 2025) | $200,000 |
| OSWEGO HEALTH FOUNDATION (ED RENOVATION PEDS PYSCH ROOMS) | $150,000 |
| CENTERSTATE CEO OSWEGO RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION (YEAR 4 OF 5) | $100,000 |
| SUNY OSWEGO ENDOWMENT (2014-20231 PAYMENT TO 2024) | $100,000 |
| CENTERSTATE CEO FULTON BLOCK BUILDERS (YEAR 4 OF 5 ) | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| ON-POINT FOR COLLEGE (CAREER PATHWAYS IN OSWEGO COUNTY) | $75,000 |
| CONNEXTCARE (SCHOOL BASED HEALTHCARE) | $73,000 |
| THE FARNHAM FOUNDATION | $64,069 |
| VICTORY TRANSFORMATION INC | $52,000 |
| CAC (NEW COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM COORDINATOR) | $32,013 |
| THE MOST (GROW EXHIBIT) | $25,000 |
| TUG HILL TOMORROW LAND TRUST (ENVIRONMENTAL ED FUND DEV) | $25,000 |
| CNY TICK AND LYME DISEASE ALLIANCE (PREVENTION AND EDUCATION) | $20,000 |
| DAVID'S REFUGE (2025 RESPITE COMMUNITY & WELLNESS SUPPORT) | $18,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 82 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York4× · 2020–2023 · $462k · revenue +18%
- OHOSWEGO HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $411k · revenue +32%
- CCCENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $275k · revenue +26% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCNY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - OSWEGO COUNTY COVID-19 FUNDone grant, 2020 · $200k
- CCCENTERSTATE CEO FULTON BLOCK BUILDERSone grant, 2020 · $126k
- CCCENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATIONFULTON BLOCK BUILDERS 2023one grant, 2023 · $125k
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.
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Opportunities for otsego, as a community action agency, mobilizes resources and creates solutions to unlock opportunities for low income individuals and families in the counties of otsego and chenango, new york. opportunities for otsego's…
The society's mission is to preserve the past of oneida county and central new york for present and future generations. the society seeks to make this rich heritage readily available to researchers, families and students, enhancing the…
Preserve the history of the town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York
Membership organization acting as liason between member physicians and general public.
To address the housing needs of low and moderate income residents of otsego county and to assest in improving housing and related retail and service establishments in rural communities within the county
The everson museum of art of syracuse and onondaga county is a not-for-profit organization located in syracuse, new york. its stated purpose is to conduct cultural, charitable, and educational activities. the museum's support comes…
OCCA is dedicated to promoting the enjoyment and sustainable use of Otsego County's natural resources through education, advocacy, resource management, research, planning and practice.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
The oswego alumni association's purpose is to promote the welfare of the state university of new york at oswego through alumni programs, publications and scholarships.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of ontario county, ny, brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oswego County Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fulton Community Revitalization Corp. 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 27 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 242 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 OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FULTON NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FARNHAM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF OSWEGO ↗
- Who funds THE DESENS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER OSWEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds FULTON COMMUNITY BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FULTON WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE CNY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHROEPPEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KRISTINAS HOUSE OF HOPE 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund · Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Allyn Family 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 Richard S Shineman Foundation 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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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