How much did SARATOGA FOUNDATION grant in FY2019?

SARATOGA FOUNDATION reported 5 grants totaling $46,020 in its FY2019 IRS filing.

Where is SARATOGA FOUNDATION based?

SARATOGA FOUNDATION is based in NY.

SARATOGA FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

SARATOGA FOUNDATION

Fund civic projects in the saratoga area

$46k

Granted FY2019

Grants

Communities

$10k

Largest

01What you fund

0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.

Arts & Culture$70kFood & Nutrition$60kHousing & Shelter$50kHuman Services$25kHealth$10kOther$31k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

parkhistory

2019

pitney meadowscare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2019 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k4 grants · $40k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

SHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC$10,000
WESLEY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC$10,000
UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL$10,000
COMMUNITY GARDENS AT PITNEY MEADOWS$10,000
BURNT HILLS ORATORIO SOCIETY INC$6,020

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$120k · 3 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$120k

$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-32%

+52%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

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PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +115%
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UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL
2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue -32%
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FRIENDS OF SARATOGA BATTLEFIELD
2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue -85%

Funded once

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CAFFE LENA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +72%
RT
REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +182%
TC
THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION IN
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Saratoga Hospital

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health

Saratoga Plan Inc

To preserve the rural character, natural habitats, and scenic beauty of saratoga county through collaborative land conservation, land stewardship, community planning, and educational activities

Environment

Saratoga Arts Inc

To enrich the region by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

Saratoga Springs Preservation

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.

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Saratoga Economic Development

Saratoga economic development corporation creates job growth by promoting economic development in saratoga county.

Community Improvement

Syracuse Opera Company Inc

Production of professional opera performances

Arts & Culture

Senior Citizens Center of Saratoga

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…

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Sarasota Opera Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Sarah's Guest House Inc

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.

Human Services

Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc

To present vibrant and diverse artistic performances that engage and enrich the community.

Arts & Culture

Saratoga Warhorse Foundation Inc

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.

Public Benefit

St Petersburg Opera Co Inc

The mission of the st. petersburg opera company is to enrich the cultural lives of the residents of, and visitors to, the tampa bay area by presenting fully staged professional opera productions of the highest quality, and to make opera…

Arts & Culture

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.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

7/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$70,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Other$31,020Human Services$25,000Health$10,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for the GreaterNY26.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater · The Adirondack Trust Company · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · William Gundry Broughton · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BURNT HILLS ORATORIO SOCIETY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 222604793 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BURNT HILLS ORATORIO SOCIETY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Saratoga Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Saratoga Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SARATOGA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Saratoga Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SARATOGA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Saratoga Foundation?

More from the funding graph