· Private foundation
The Bernard F Conners Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | $1,000 |
| Notre Dame Club of NENY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| Friends of Niskayuna High School Baseball Inc | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TPTHE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +78%
- UAUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $21k · revenue +65%
- SPST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RFRegional Food Pantryone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BABRITISH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $3k
- SSStGregory's Schoolone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Niskayuna High School Baseball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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, 2017–2026.
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. 25 of the 53 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 THE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOUDONVILLE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUTHORS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds NISKAYUNA ATHLETICS BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FORT ORANGE CLUB ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION OF LAKE PLACID ↗
- Who funds GEORGE BIDDLE KELLEY FOUNDATION 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Review Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Trombly Foundation · Massry Charitable Foundation Inc · John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) · Kiwi 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 Bernard F Conners 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.
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.