How much does The Arts Center of the Capital Region give?

The Arts Center of the Capital Region reported 3 itemized grants totaling $21,000, out of $279,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Arts Center of the Capital Region fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Food & Nutrition (2%).

Who are The Arts Center of the Capital Region's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hamilton Hill Drop In Arts & Crafts Center Inc ($42k), Tri-City India Association Inc ($14k), Troy Waterfront Farmers Market Inc ($11k).

Does The Arts Center of the Capital Region fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Center of the Capital Region?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Price Chopper's Golub Foundation, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc, The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo.

Where is The Arts Center of the Capital Region based?

The Arts Center of the Capital Region is based in NY.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region

The Arts Center of the Capital Region at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The Arts Center of the Capital Region

To lead through advancement of the contemporary arts in the capital region through education, presentation, audience development, providing services and advocacy.

$279k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

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States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$551kFood & Nutrition$11k

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 3 grants below total $21,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $279,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $11k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$5,500

Median grant

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States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SCHENECTADY LIGHT OPERA CO INC	$10,000
ALBANY PUBLIC LIBRARY	$5,500
REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERV EMMAUS	$5,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$91k · 5 repeat orgs$472k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$91k

$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+14%

Still filing today

60%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

HH
Hamilton Hill Drop In Arts & Crafts Center Inc
3× · 2019–2023 · $42k · revenue +37%
RA
REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERV EMMAUS
2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
TI
Tri-City India Association Inc
2× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue -122%

Funded once

V
VARIOUS
one grant, 2017 · $84k
VR
VARIOUS RECIPIENTS - ALL UNDER 5000
one grant, 2018 · $83k
AL
ARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS INC
one grant, 2024 · $15k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Community Cultural Center of the Sidney Arts and Culture Exchange

Our mission is to enrich and connect the community of Sidney, New York through diverse arts and entertainment experiences.

Arts & Culture

Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center

Arts & Culture

The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Fo

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Clinton Arts Center

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Arts & Cultural Council of Dec County

Promote Art and Cultural Activities

Arts & Culture

Cny Arts Center Inc

The organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Ukrainian Cultural Center of Syracuse Inc

N/a

Arts & Culture

The Folkus Project Incorporated

To foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and related performing arts in Syracuse and Central NY.

Arts & Culture

Utica Monday Nite Corporation

Initiated in 1997 the organizations mission is to promote a regional arts economy by making the arts and humanities available and accessible to all Utica NY residents and visitors from the wider region.

Education

Nittany Performing Arts Centre

To create a performing arts center, easily accessible for audiences in centre county, with optimal acoustics and an exhilarating atmosphere. the center will serve as a performance venue and education center for the community's performing…

Arts & Culture

Schenectady Civic Players Inc

To foster, promote and nurture the natural talents of those citizens interested in play production, stagecraft and arts management; to stimulate appreciation and participation in suporting high quality theatrical prodcutions for the…

Arts & Culture

Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colonie Senior Services Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arvilla E Diver Memorial Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

13/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$426,902Arts & Culture$67,700Education$24,000Human Services$19,750Food & Nutrition$11,100Recreation & Sports$10,000Environment$2,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Price Chopper's Golub FoundationNY19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arts Center of the Capital Region funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arts Center of the Capital Region. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home