· Public charity
Saratoga Foundation
Fund civic projects in the saratoga area
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY GARDENS AT PITNEY MEADOWS | $10,000 |
| SHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC | $10,000 |
| WESLEY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| BURNT HILLS ORATORIO SOCIETY INC | $6,020 |
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 (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- PMPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +115%
- SSSARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue -32%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA BATTLEFIELD2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue -85%
Funded once
- CLCAFFE LENA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +72%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -9%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +182%
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.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.
The saratoga springs preservation foundation promotes the preservation and enhancement of the architectural, cultural, and landscaped heritage of saratoga springs through educational programs, advocacy, technical assistance and restoration.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
The corporation is organized to promote the best interests for the senior citizens of the city of saratoga springs, new york and the county of saratoga in the state of new york; to maintain and operate a building as a meeting place for…
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.
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
Retirement home for the elderly. an independant senior living retirement community providing supervision and housing for the elderly
Saratoga economic development corporation creates job growth by promoting economic development in saratoga county
Homeless shelter
Home headquarters, inc is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1996. over the past 25 years, home headquarters has been committed to creating housing and related opportunities and services in upstate new york…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelters of Saratoga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caffe Lena Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL ↗
- Who funds CAFFE LENA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SARATOGA BATTLEFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA VOICES 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 · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Business for Good Foundation Inc · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Saratoga 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.
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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