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The Busfield 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,319 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BINGHAMTON A | $8,000 |
| TEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE INC | $5,300 |
| DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| FERRE INSTITUTE INC | $3,175 |
| S O S SHELTER INC | $2,500 |
| LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| DEPOSIT FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,425 |
| Dean Road Elementary School | $2,150 |
| DEPOSIT MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK IN | $2,000 |
| DEPOSIT FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| AFTON JUNIORSENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DEPOSIT NEW YORK COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,250 |
| DEPOSIT COMMUNITY THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS CENT | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- LHLOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +101%
- SSSOS SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%
- UHUNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CSCOMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +52%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
To provide funds to enhance the medical facilities for the DCH Health System with a focus on DCH Regional Medical Center and Northport Medical Center.
Cooperative library system
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
Community health action of staten island' drives dramatic improvements in the health of new yorkers.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
The society was established to study the history of new york canals and their effect on the life and economy of new york state; to promote interest in the canals; and to encourage preservation of canal records, relics, structures, and…
To broaden health care access, provide educational opportunities and services with a professional health team in a culturally sensitive fashion to the chinese population in the community. its objective is to meet the unmet healthcare needs…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% 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 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.
22 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. 22 of the 50 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 Ferre Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS & BABIES PERINATAL NETWORK OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DEPOSIT COMMUNITY THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR EMERGENCY SERVICES 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 South Central New York Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Broome County Inc · Kenneth M Axtell Jr Foundation · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Busfield 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.
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