· Private foundation
The Anderson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN W JONES MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CLEMENS CENTER | $15,000 |
| HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE | $12,000 |
| TANGLEWOOD COMMUNITY NATURE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF ELMIRA | $10,000 |
| CHEMUNG COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHEMUNG RIVER | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY CENTER | $7,000 |
| CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| CHEMUNG COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT | $5,000 |
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, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CCCHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $143k · revenue +37%
- CCCHEMUNG COUNTY CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2023 · $74k · revenue +49%
- HFHORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- QFQUARRY FARM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -43%
- CCCHEMUNG COUNTY DEPT OFone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CFCOMMUNITY FDN OF ELMIRA-CORNING &one grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
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…
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.
To provide quality child care services for suny cobleskill employees and the public at large.
Providing cultural and educational programs to the homer, new york community. to enhance the quality of life for the people of the central new york community that preserves and enriches local culture and provides stewardship for a…
The corporation was established to combat the problem of vacant and abandoned properties in chemung county and the city of elmira and facilitate the return of vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties to productive use.
Embracing the montessori philosophy, we nurture each child's individual potential, passion for lifelong learning and sense of world community.
To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chemung County Humane Society & Spca and the most unlike its peers is The Rockwell Museum. 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 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 66 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 CHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELDRIDGE PARK CAROUSEL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Science and Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds QUARRY FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN W JONES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds K R A M E R FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
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 Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Triangle Fund · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Meier Family Foundation · Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc · The Tripp Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc · Lindau 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 The Anderson Foundation 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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