· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOHARIE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE CORP | $50,500 |
| THE JOSHUA PROJECT | $31,975 |
| SCHOHARIE COUNTY COUNCIL OF SENIOR | $10,000 |
| MARATHON FOR A BETTER LIFE | $5,725 |
| COBLESKILL RICHMONDVILLE EDUCATION FDN | $5,450 |
| COBLESKILL PARTNERSHIP INC | $5,150 |
| SUNY COBLESKILL FOUNDATION | $5,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BASSETT | $5,000 |
| SCHOHARIE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,000 |
| HELIOS CARE | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF SCHOHARIE VALLEY | $3,075 |
| LITERACY NEW YORK | $2,500 |
| IROQUOIS INDIAN MUSEUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 42% of Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% 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
- SESCHOHARIE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $526k · revenue +26% · 26% of their budget
- FOFriends of Bassett Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +11%
- MFMARATHON FOR A BETTER LIFE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- HRHEALTH RESEARCH INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -18%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE & OTSEGOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NRNORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
To lead the fight to cure and treat als through global, cutting edge research and patient care.
To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…
To eliminate pet overpopulation, prevent animal cruelty, provide quality care for homeless animals, promote responsible pet ownership and help the community to develop humane principles toward all animals.
Community health action of staten island' drives dramatic improvements in the health of new yorkers.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sunnyview rehabilitation hospital is a member of st. peter's health…
Schuyler Hospital is a network of providers, programs and services that meets the healthcare needs of a population of over 32,000 residents, through a wide range of medical services, highly skilled medical staff, and our devotion to…
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
Soldiers and sailors memorial hospital is a community based, not-for-profit critical access hospital dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of all people in the central finger lakes region. we are committed to safe, high…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ellenville Regional Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 278 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SCHOHARIE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COBLESKILL PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds MARATHON FOR A BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds IROQUOIS INDIAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF SCHOHARIE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COBLESKILL-RICHMONDVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSURANCE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KLINKHART HALL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AYRES MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds SCHOPEG ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: 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
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 Sterling Insurance Company Foundation 008132 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.