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Skaneateles Central School Endowment

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$304kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$999k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,250
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JANE PHILLIPS: $6k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH: $8k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $4k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 7%MAURA LEONARDIS: $3k → 10%ADDISON BADAMI: $5k → 13%BATES COLLEGE: $6k → 22%SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ARTS & DESIGN: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY: $3k → 14%MUHAMMAD AHMAD: $4k → 16%PACE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%St Lawrence University: $4k → 18%SUNY FREDONIA: $5k → 18%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $3k → 28%The University of Tampa: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $6k → 15%WADE TRIVISONNO: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $3k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%KENYON COLLEGE: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%LOYOLA COLLEGE: $4k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $5k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH: $3k → 8%MATTHEW LEONARDIS: $3k → 10%University of Pennsylvania: $6k → 22%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 17%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%SIENNA COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%BOSTON CONVERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $3k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%SUNY ONEONTA: $3k → 14%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%LEMOYNE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%SAMUEL COLEMAN: $5k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 12 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
52

Total granted

$66k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • Cornell University
    3× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +23%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +29%
  • BC
    BATES COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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 83 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%92%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%86%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
32/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY — $8,500 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $6,250 · OtherBATES COLLEGE — $6,000 · Other+53 more — $137,170 · Other+53 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $11,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYCornell University — $9,200 · EducationCornell UniversityARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY — $6,250 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $6,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $5,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College — $5,250 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationLe Moyne College — $5,000 · Education+20 more — $58,200 · Education+20 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$157,920Education$139,400Community Improvement$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $9,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Skaneateles Central School Endowment 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Skaneateles Central School Endowment?

Find your warmest path to Skaneateles Central School Endowment 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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