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Skidmore College

The education of predominantly full-time undergraduates, a diverse population of talented students who are eager to engage actively in the learning process.

$77M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$257kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$10kEducation$10kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $34,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,224,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,190,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$25,000
MEDIA ALLIANCE INC$9,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Saratoga Arts Festival: $25k → 7%MEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $9k → 11%CREATE COMM STUDIOS: $15k → 12%JACQUELINE MADISON NORTH COUNTRY: $5k → 14%KANATSIOHAREKE INC: $5k → 14%ENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $25k → 7%RESTED ROOT CORP: $5k → 11%CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS: $8k → 12%KANATSIOHAREKE INC: $5k → 14%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $25k → 7%ADAM WALKER - PEOPLE'S VOICE: $5k → 11%CREATE COMM STUDIOS: $5k → 12%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $25k → 7%MEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 11%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $25k → 7%GREEN EDUCATION & LEGAL FUND: $5k → 11%SARATOGA YMCA: $20k → 7%GREEN EDUCATION & LEGAL FUND: $5k → 11%SARATOGA ARTS FESTIVAL: $20k → 7%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $20k → 7%NDAKINNA EDUCATION CENTER: $10k → 7%NDAKINNA EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 7%NDAKINNA EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 7%STOMPING GROUND CAMP INC: $5k → 7%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 8 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$272k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SP
    SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • CC
    CREATE Community Studios
    3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +210%
  • TG
    THE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SR
    Saratoga Regional YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SG
    STOMPING GROUND CAMP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -6%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts enriches our region by cultivating a vibrant and welcoming arts community. saratoga arts is your community arts center - a vital and welcoming space where creativity and culture thrive. we nurture artists at every stage and…

Arts & Culture
2
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
3
All Out Arts Inc

Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.

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4
Saranac Lake Artworks Inc

Arts-related businesses and individuals collaborating to market and promote the Adirondack landscape through multiple forms of art.

Arts & Culture
5
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
6
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts

To promote education in the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Artsnys

ArtsNYS leads state-wide efforts to advance the arts throughout New York State by: Serving as a coordinating and convening agency for a broad range of arts service groups; Leading efforts to promote the arts and to educate the public about…

Arts & Culture
8
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
9
Sattya Media Arts Collective

Sattya Media Arts Collective is a nonprofit organization that supports creativity learning and community engagement through accessible arts and media programs. The organization provides workshops community events collaborative projects and…

Arts & Culture
10
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in

To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.

Arts & Culture
11
Lively Productions

Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies

Arts & Culture
12
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADIAL ARTS INC: $65,000 · OtherRADIAL ARTS INCCREATE Community Studios: $28,000 · OtherCREATE Community StudiosBLACK DIMENSIONS IN ART INC: $25,000 · OtherBLACK DIMENSIONS IN ART INCSaratoga Regional YMCA: $20,000 · OtherSaratoga Regional YMCAGREEN EDUCATION & LEGAL FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherGREEN EDUCATION & LEGAL FUND INC+3 more: $15,000 · Other+3 moreSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCTHE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INCMEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA ALLIANCE INCKANATSIOHAREKE INC: $10,000 · EducationENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT PERICLES INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySTOMPING GROUND CAMP INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$163,000Arts & Culture$134,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCREATE Community Studios: $28,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSaratoga Regional YMCA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetKANATSIOHAREKE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSTOMPING GROUND CAMP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPROJECT PERICLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Keeler Motor Car Comp…Alfred Z Solomon Test…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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