· Private foundation
Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAPITAL REGION | $51,571 |
| HOOD'S HOUSE OF HOOPS | $10,305 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC | $7,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW YORK | $6,025 |
| MOM STARTS HERE | $5,501 |
| YOUNG PARENTS UNITED | $5,000 |
| LIFESONG INC | $5,000 |
| MR MO PROJECT | $5,000 |
| KELLY'S ANGELS INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION | $4,959 |
| ALBANY PRIDE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC | $4,100 |
| PRIDE CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION | $3,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $3,500 |
| STRIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +50%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA7× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +437%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- BDBLACK DIAMONDS ACADEMIC SUCCESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +153%
- SPST PAUL'S CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +75%
- MAMission Accomplished Transition Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +93%
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.
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.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…
The agency operates community residences and supported housing programs and provides other outpatient, vocational rehabilitation & clinical services to individuals with mental illness.
To provide person-centered recovery programs and compassionate care in a home-like environment.
The albany damien center inc.'s mission is to enhance the lives of people impacted by hiv, mental health, and homelessness in a safe, inclusive environment. our vision is a more equitable community, where people achieve their desired…
The center for independence of the disabled, new york's goal is to ensure full integration, independence and equal opportunity for all people with disabilities by removing barriers to the social, economic, cultural and civic life of the…
A-home is a not-for-profit organization that strengthens northern westchester neighborhoods by providing residents a safe and affordable place to live.
Aim is dedicated to supporting the "power of potential" in people of diverse abilities. through community based services, advocacy and education, dedicated professionals support people in achieving personal goals while promoting self…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Catherine's Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Hatsgiving Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 129 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The RED Bookshelf Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS & COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds Albany Pride Hockey Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOM STARTS HERE INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds Bring on the Spectrum Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STRIDE Inc ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NIGHT OUT FOR YOU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗
- Who funds KELLY'S ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG INC ↗
- Who funds MR MO PROJECT SENIOR DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK DIAMONDS ACADEMIC SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL 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 · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Capital Communications Cares Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Review Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation 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 Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.