· Public charity
The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc
The mission of the arts council of the southern finger lakes, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $193,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $504,818 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $311,178 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES PRIDE | $11,400 |
| ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM | $11,050 |
| STEELE MEMORIAL LIBRARY (CHEMUNG COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT) | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,700 |
| FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC | $9,530 |
| 360 PRONOIA | $9,500 |
| CORNING HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | $9,250 |
| WATKINS GLEN PROMOTIONS | $9,100 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $9,100 |
| COBURN FREE LIBRARY | $9,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $8,890 |
| KEYNOTE CHORUS | $8,800 |
| ABBY'S PAWS FOR A CAUSE INC | $8,500 |
| NEWARK VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,400 |
| THE OLEAN THEATRE WORKSHOP | $7,200 |
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 (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 19 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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 LIBRARY DISTRICT4× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +19%
- FSFamily Service Society Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%
- DSDUTTON S PETERSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- ABAZURE BLUE ARTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SNSENECA NATION OF INDIANSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ELELMIRA LITTLE THEATRE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steuben County Conference & Visitors Bureau Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gowanda's Historic Hollywood Theater Ltd. 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 21 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Family Service Society Inc ↗
- Who funds DUTTON S PETERSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GOWANDA'S HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD THEATER LTD ↗
- Who funds CORNING PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE ↗
- Who funds CORNING GAFFER DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINS GLEN PROMOTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Coburn Free Library ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds Newark Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds OLEAN THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Regional Science and Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEMUNG RIVER WATERSHED INC ↗
- Who funds CANTATA SINGERS OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER INDA CULTURAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC TIOGA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JOHN W JONES MUSEUM ↗
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 · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Triangle Fund · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · Meier Family Foundation · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes 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.