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Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132

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.

$172k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
78
Grants FY2025
79
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$300
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,500
Organizations funded a year
67 to 89
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving77$172k26%
FY202479$266k24%
FY202369$195k35%
FY202274$170k34%
FY202172$139k31%
FY202067$217k27%
FY201979$181k34%
FY201889$115k48%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$764kHealth$173kEducation$146kPhilanthropy$98kHuman Services$53kPublic Benefit$53kArts & Culture$36kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 157 grantees
All grantees of Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Schoharie Economic Enterprise Corporation$526,000726%
Cobleskill Partnership Incorporated$208,045986%
Friends of Bassett Inc$80,73381%
Joshua Foundation Inc$72,2249n/a
Marathon for a Better Life Inc$31,71996%
Schoharie County Community Action Program Inc$26,81960%
Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care Inc Dba Helios Care$23,37570%
Literacy New York Inc$19,50090%
Iroquois Indian Museum$18,80091%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc$18,45080%
Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley Inc$17,46091%
Cobleskill-Richmondville Education Foundation Inc$13,62536%
The Community Library$12,50051%
New York Insurance Scholarship Foundation Inc$10,60087%
Klinkhart Hall Arts Center Inc$6,63034%
Health Research Inc$6,26410%
Ayres Memorial Animal Shelter Inc$5,75091%
Le Moyne College$5,45070%
Schopeg Access Inc$5,00016%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$4,57590%
Cobleskill Rescue Squad Inc$2,40040%
Richmondville Volunteer Emergency Squad$2,00013%
Jefferson Historical Society$1,80040%
Schoharie County Historical Society$1,75050%
Schoharie County Child Development Council Inc$1,75010%
Things of My Very Own Inc$1,55040%
Richmondville Historical Society$1,5006n/a
American Heart Association Inc$1,50030%
Schoharie River Center Inc$1,50030%
Canajoharie Area Little League Inc$1,3508n/a
Sparrow's Nest of the Hudson Valley$1,25050%
Sharon Springs Free Library$1,25050%
St Catherine's Center for Children$1,15020%
The Rescue Mission of Utica Inc$1,15030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,15030%
Palmyra Community Center$1,10020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$1,10020%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$1,00040%
Hero Fund America Inc$1,00021%
Beagle Freedom Project$90090%
Healthwell Foundation$90030%
Richmondville Vol Fire Company Inc$80020%
Leatherstocking Honor Flight Inc$77561%
Community Youth Center Inc$75040%
Green Mountain Pug Rescue$65070%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$65050%
West Fulton Arts Inc$6002n/a
Fields of Grace Outreach$57551%
The Salvation Army$5753n/a
Insulin For Life USA Inc$55040%
Bon Secours Warwick Health Foundation$50010%
The Community Hospice Foundation Inc$50010%
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$50020%
Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association$50011%
Central Bridge Civic Association Inc$4503n/a
Worcester Historical Society Inc$45031%
Wamc$45020%
The Institute$4381n/a
Captain Community Human Services Inc$40020%
Nicks Ride 4 Friends Inc$40010%
Middleburgh Emergency Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc$40010%
Guilderland Girls Softball League$40030%
Halos Incorporated$40030%
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc$35040%
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc$35010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$32520%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$32530%
Trooper Foundation State of New York Inc$30020%
United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc$30020%
K9s of Valor- care Packages for K9s$3001n/a
Pompe Warrior Foundation$30040%
Scary Leg Runners$30031%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$30020%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$27510%
Pioneer Gas Engine Association Inc$2501n/a
Patient Airlift Services Inc$25010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$25020%
Goodyear Lake Polar Bears Inc$2501n/a
Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc$25010%
Dutchess County Spca Inc$22510%
Blood Cancer United Inc$20010%
Carefirst Ny Inc$20010%
Gilboa Historical Society Inc$20020%
Folds of Honor Foundation$20020%
Diaz Memorial Ambulance Service Inc$20010%
Operation Unite New York Inc$20010%
Geneva Center of Concern Inc$20010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$20020%
Safe Water-Ghana Inc$2001n/a
Chenango Memorial Hospital Inc$20020%
Daily Bread Food Pantry$1741n/a
Air & Space Forces Aid Society Inc$15010%
Community Cupboard of Edmeston Inc$1501n/a
Scho-Wright Ambulance Service Inc$15020%
Bright Hill Press Inc$15010%
Schoharie County Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse Inc$15010%
Bernard's Beagle Rescue Inc$1501n/a
Bring on the Spectrum Inc$15010%
Delaware Valley Humane Society Inc$15010%
Susquehanna Spca Inc$15010%
The Community Hospice Inc$15010%
Fort Plain Free Library$15010%
Friends of Shenendehowa Crew Inc$1501n/a
Stachestrong Inc$15010%
The Danielle House Inc$15010%
Finger Lakes Spca Inc$15010%
United Way of Sullivan County Inc$15010%
Huntington's Disease Society of America Inc$15010%
Ellenville Regional Hospital Foundation Inc$13510%
Saratoga Springs Lions Club Inc$12510%
American Lung Association$12540%
The Sandals Foundation Inc$1231n/a
Timothy Murphy Playhouse Inc$1101n/a
The Bus Stop Club Inc$10010%
Breakthrough T1d$10010%
Friends of the Outlet Inc$1001n/a
Albany Police Athletic League Inc$10010%
ARC of Wayne Foundation Inc$10010%
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$10010%
Center for Disability Servicesinc$10010%
Rotary Club of Sidney Community Foundation Inc$10010%
Free to Be Me Rescue Inc$10010%
North Country Habitat for Humanity Inc$10010%
Pathfinder Village Foundation Inc$10010%
Living Resources Foundation Inc$10010%
Saratoga Warhorse Foundation Inc$10010%
FCS Foundation$10010%
Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc$10010%
Children's Home of Kingston$10010%
Clarkstown Central Athletic Foundation$1001n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc$10010%
CazCares Inc$10010%
Clifton Park Baseball League Inc$10010%
Umbrella of the Capital District Inc$10010%
Mercy House of the Southern Tier Inc$10010%
Jowonio School Inc$10010%
Adirondack Aquatic Center Inc$10010%
Peaceful Acres Horses Inc$1001n/a
Dudley Observatory of the City of Albany Inc$10010%
International Myeloma Foundation$10010%
Family Life Ministries Inc$10010%
Worcester Sports Booster Club$751n/a
Woofs for Warriors Inc$751n/a
Columbia-Greene Humane Society Inc$7510%
Storehouse Inc$751n/a
Northeast Avian Rescue Inc$601n/a
Queechy Lake Club Inc$501n/a
Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc$5010%
Schoharie County Trail Association Inc$5011%
M-Ark Project Inc$5010%
Charlotte's Finest Legacy Foundation$5010%
Ontario County Historical Society$5010%
Nazareth University$5010%
Heart to Heart International Inc$2510%
Crisis Text Line Inc$2510%
Dna Doe Project$2510%
World Central Kitchen Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 119 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSchoharie Economic Enterprise Corporation: $526,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetCobleskill Partnership Incorporated: $208,045 over 9y, 86% of budgetFriends of Bassett Inc: $80,733 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMarathon for a Better Life Inc: $31,719 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetSchoharie County Community Action Program Inc: $26,819 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCatskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care Inc Dba Helios Care: $23,375 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy New York Inc: $19,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetIroquois Indian Museum: $18,800 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc: $18,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Schoharie Valley Inc: $17,460 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCobleskill-Richmondville Education Foundation Inc: $13,625 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetThe Community Library: $12,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNew York Insurance Scholarship Foundation Inc: $10,600 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetKlinkhart Hall Arts Center Inc: $6,630 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHealth Research Inc: $6,264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAyres Memorial Animal Shelter Inc: $5,750 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetLe Moyne College: $5,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSchopeg Access Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $4,575 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCobleskill Rescue Squad Inc: $2,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRichmondville Volunteer Emergency Squad: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJefferson Historical Society: $1,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSchoharie County Historical Society: $1,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSchoharie County Child Development Council Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThings of My Very Own Inc: $1,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchoharie River Center Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSparrow's Nest of the Hudson Valley: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSharon Springs Free Library: $1,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSt Catherine's Center for Children: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rescue Mission of Utica Inc: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalmyra Community Center: $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHero Fund America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBeagle Freedom Project: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHealthwell Foundation: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRichmondville Vol Fire Company Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLeatherstocking Honor Flight Inc: $775 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Youth Center Inc: $750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Mountain Pug Rescue: $650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFields of Grace Outreach: $575 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetInsulin For Life USA Inc: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Warwick Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Community Hospice Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 132.

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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 Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY39.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Nycm Foundation · Rose & Kiernan Charitable Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · The John and Kellyanne Murray Charitable Foundation · Review Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc

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.

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About Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132

How much does Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 give?
Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 reported 78 grants totaling $172,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 89 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Health (11%), Education (10%).
Who are Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schoharie Economic Enterprise Corporation ($526k), Cobleskill Partnership Incorporated ($208k), Friends of Bassett Inc ($81k).
Does Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, JM McDonald Foundation Inc, Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation.
Where is Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 based?
Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 is based in NY.

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 278 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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