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Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny
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 $10k12 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAHAM HOUSE | $13,650 |
| HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION | $12,043 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - MOHAWK VALLEY CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| ROME HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| COPPER CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC | $9,000 |
| ROME COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,700 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF ROME | $6,800 |
| CAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $6,800 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF ROME NY | $6,000 |
| ROME ART & COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,838 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| ROME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| ROME COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND | $3,000 |
| KEYS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 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
- AHABRAHAM HOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +13%
- RMROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +351%
- RCRome Cemetery Association8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - MOHAWK VALLEYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- DLDELTA LAKE BIBLE CONFERENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
- MVMOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +46%
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.
The Rome Chamber Music Festival, Inc. is a New York not-for-profit corporation established to promote and advance the public perception and awareness of music in its cultural environment by organizing and promoting concerts and musical…
Promote commerce for the local area
Live performing arts for the residents and students of northwest georgia.
Community improvement
The organization intends to revitalize and provide economic sustainability for the city of rome, ny, by cleaning up contamination, rehabilitating buildings that are inhabitable, and then, sell or lease the property at a reasonable price.
The rochester cemetery association was formed as a non-denominational, nonprofit, lot-owner operated corporation to establish a final resting place as desired by the people of rochester and surrounding areas.
An organization for the purpose of educating the citizens in ways of improving the community's appearance.
To inspire, educate, and entertain through excellence in musical performances.
To promote and defend Romes cultural heritage through educational programs, projects, and public outreach in archaeology and Mediterranean culture, conservation, video, and social media.
Pregnancy counseling and medical support for pregnant mothers. parenting educational services for parents of newborn babies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Council of Rome Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Deerpark Area Senior Citizens Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 ABRAHAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rome Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds ROME COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
- Who funds ROME ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROME INC ↗
- Who funds ROME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Deerpark Area Senior Citizens Council ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENT ↗
- Who funds ROME COMMUNITY THEATER 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: Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Dorothy G Griffin Charitable Foundation · The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny 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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