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Shawangunk Valley Conservancy Inc at a glance

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Shawangunk Valley Conservancy Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$597kEnvironment$74kEducation$5kScience & Tech$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STORM KING ART CENTER$28,000
DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY$25,500
VARIOUS - 5500 AND UNDER$23,960
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%MARIST COLLEGE: $5k → 9%STORM KING ART CENTER: $57k → 14%DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $148k → 16%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $34k → 17%VARIOUS - 5000 AND UNDER: $44k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $51k → 14%DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $41k → 16%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $11k → 17%VARIOUS - 7500 AND UNDER: $38k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $47k → 14%DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $26k → 16%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $11k → 17%VARIOUS - 3000 AND UNDER: $32k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $38k → 14%DH CANAL HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $22k → 16%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $9k → 17%VARIOUS - 7500 AND UNDER: $31k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $37k → 14%DH CANAL HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $20k → 16%VARIOUS - UNDER 3000: $30k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $28k → 14%DH CANAL HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $13k → 16%VARIOUS - 3000 AND UNDER: $29k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $21k → 14%DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $11k → 16%VARIOUS - 5500 AND UNDER: $24k → 11%STORM KING ART CENTER: $11k → 14%DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $10k → 16%VARIOUS - UNDER 1500: $17k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $3k → 11%WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $15k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$790k · 7 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$790k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+229%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationScience & TechHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SK
    STORM KING ART CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +66%
  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +219%
  • ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • V5
    VARIOUS - 5000 AND UNDER
    one grant, 2021 · $44k
  • VU
    VARIOUS - UNDER 3000
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • VU
    VARIOUS - UNDER 1500
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DH HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $235,600 · OtherDH HISTORCIAL SOCIETYVARIOUS - 7500 AND UNDER: $68,820 · OtherVARIOUS - 7500 AND UNDERVARIOUS - 3000 AND UNDER: $60,650 · OtherVARIOUS - 3000 AND UNDERDH CANAL HISTORCIAL SOCIETY: $55,925 · OtherDH CANAL HISTORCIAL SOCIETYVARIOUS - 5000 AND UNDER: $44,245 · OtherVARIOUS - 5000 AND UNDERVARIOUS - UNDER 3000: $30,095 · OtherVARIOUS - UNDER 3000VARIOUS - 5500 AND UNDER: $23,960 · Other+1 more: $16,843 · OtherSTORM KING ART CENTER: $288,075 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTERARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $17,600 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETONOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $63,800 · EnvironmentOPEN SPAC…THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $10,150 · EnvironmentTHE WATER…MARIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Science & TechScleroderma Research Foundation: $2,000 · Health
Other$536,138Arts & Culture$305,675Environment$73,950Education$5,000Science & Tech$2,500Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $288,075 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $63,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $17,600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $10,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Scleroderma Research Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shawangunk Valley Conservancy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shawangunk Valley Conservancy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Arts Council of Princeton: 6% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Shawangunk Valley Conservancy Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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