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River Farm America Foundation
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
- $10k–50k16 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA | $200,000 |
| EQUINE ADVOCATES | $195,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN | $30,000 |
| WHISKERS ANIMAL BENEVOLANT LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER - SARASOTA COUNTY | $30,000 |
| UOC ODYSSEY PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| SARATOGA HISTORY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SHELTERS OF SARATOGA | $25,000 |
| OLD FRIENDS OF CABIN CREEK | $25,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NY | $20,000 |
| SARATOGA SPONSOR A SCHOLAR | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +219% · 35% of their budget
- EAEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $873k · revenue +183%
- FCFRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- TATHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INCone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -14%
- A(ADT (AUTUMN GIVING) COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MHMOHAEK HUDSON HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $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.
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To improve the physical, mental, and emotional health of veterans and service members with post-traumatic stress by providing a healing, equine- assisted experience utilizing off-the-track thoroughbreds.
To promote harness racing with special regard to the saratoga springs, new york area and promote the welfare of its members.
Conserve, enhance, and celebrate our distinctive catskill sanctuary through sustainable horticulture, responsible land stewardship, and innovative educational programming
To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.
Established in 1986, Saratoga Therapeutic Equestrian Program (STEP) is a charitable not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, registered in New York State and located at New Forest Equestrian Centre in Glenville, NY. STEP is dedicated to…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Our mission is giving hope to the hopeless. snarr northeast focuses on those animals least likely to receive another chance based on physical disabilities, illness and varied medical needs. we strive to prove these animals in need have the…
In 1984, saratoga bridges opened the first accessible community-based home in the county for people with developmental disabilities. subsequently, our residential program has grown tremendously. our goal is to teach residents to become…
The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Plan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Farm Foundation 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK TRUST COMPANY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE THOROUGHBREDS INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Farm Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTT NATURALLY INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Saratoga Casino Hotel Foundation Inc · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Robert and Lisa Moser Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Hannah M Adler Testamentary Trust · The Swyer Family Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 River Farm America 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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