· Private foundation
The Carlilian Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSE GARDEN RESTORATION COMMITTEE | $98,882 |
| SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SCHENECTADY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER | $12,500 |
| SEAT CENTER | $10,000 |
| SUNY SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEG | $10,000 |
| SCHENECTADY GUYANESE COMM CTR | $10,000 |
| ALBANY BARN INC | $10,000 |
| SEAH INC | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE GREATER CAPITA | $10,000 |
| CONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY | $7,000 |
| PROCTORS | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| MUSIC HAVEN SUMMER CONCERT SERIES | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- SESOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +62%
- SRSCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +308%
- BUBRIGHTSIDE UP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SFSCHENETADY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CCCrossroads Center for Childrenone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
- DSDOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -43%
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.
Child day care services
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
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…
The purpose of the corporation is to provide for the encouragement, solicitation, promotion, procurement, and servicing of all forms of travel to and through onondaga county, new york, specifically including, but not limited to,…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
Provide programs and nutrition for senior citizens
To preserve, enhance and advance commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, youth, civic, cultural and general interest of the political subdivisions and geographical locations where its members are located; to promote and expand…
To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schenectady Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rose Garden Restoration Committee. 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 28 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 52 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 ROSE GARDEN RESTORATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSIDE UP INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Center for Children ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE Community Studios ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE AEROSCIENCES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FATHERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds RISE HIGH INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Albany Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds INGERSOLL ADULT HOME 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 Schenectady Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Wright Family Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · The Schenectady 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 Carlilian 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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