· Private foundation
Social Service League of Ithaca Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND WIND COTTAGES | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,700 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NY | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER | $1,300 |
| TOMPKINS LEARNING PARTNERS INC | $1,186 |
| FOODNET MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,120 |
| WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $1,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER | $1,000 |
| ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE | $800 |
| NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL | $700 |
| LOVE LIVING AT HOME | $625 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- NFNUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +1%
- IWITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +166%
- GOGOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC3× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +4%
- TCTHE CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +85%
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.
Tompkins community action, inc. (tcaction) "believes an active community can produce powerful change". located in upstate new york's finger lakes region, tcaction has served the community for over 55 years, implementing programs that…
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
The History Center in Tompkins County, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and encourage access to its unique collections, while designing learning experiences and services that create opportunities for people to…
To improve the quality of life for all residents of its primary service areas by focusing on meeting the needs of the low-income and disadvantaged population, and to promote the personal and family growth of its constituents as they move…
Provide transportation benefits, discounts and resources to developers, employers and individuals communting to and from Tompkins County to support people in commuting and getting around town in a reliable, sustainable and healthly way.
Serving the most in need in ulster county. our program services are designed to respond to changing community needs, to strengthen families, to foster opportunities for education and training, to increase employability, to initiate…
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
A professional community resource providing caring and effective recovery services dedicated to improving quality of life by promoting individual dignity and respect for all.
Our mission is to help people escape the cycle of poverty and homelessness, secure stable long-term housing, and achieve a self-directed vision for their lives. We achieve this mission by providing affordable, transitional housing combined…
York community resource center equips and uplifts their community through a strong and educated workforce.
Dedicated to expanding housing opportunities for low and moderate-income residents of cayuga, chemung, cortland, schuyler, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties. it seeks to foster communities that embrace diversity, equity, and…
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ithaca Community Childcare Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithaca Welcomes Refugees Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 38 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 CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND COTTAGES INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY GO INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KHUBA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS LEARNING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE LIVING AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVOCACY CENTER OF TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ITHACA YOUTH BUREAU ↗
- Who funds NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc · Brooks Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Norathco 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 Social Service League of Ithaca Inc 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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