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The Carlilian Foundation at a glance

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The Carlilian Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$256k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$531kHuman Services$157kArts & Culture$154kEmployment$65kHealth$63kHousing & Shelter$57kFood & Nutrition$28kReligion$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SCHENECTADY GUYANESE COMM CTR$10,000
SEAH INC$10,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE GREATER CAPITA$10,000
SUNY SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEG$10,000
ALBANY BARN INC$10,000
CONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY$7,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PROCTORS$5,000
MUSIC HAVEN SUMMER CONCERT SERIES$2,500
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS: $1k → 12%BRIGHTSIDE UP: $13k → 14%SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20k → 12%BRIGHTSIDE UP: $13k → 14%BETHESDA HOUSE: $13k → 12%CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY FATHERS INC: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$677k · 8 repeat orgs$506k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
34

Total granted

$677k
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • SE
    SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +62%
  • SR
    SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +308%
  • BU
    BRIGHTSIDE UP INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CC
    Crossroads Center for Children
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • ES
    EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • SF
    SCHENETADY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

1
Schenectady Day Nursery Inc

Child day care services

Human Services
2
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
3
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
4
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
5
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
6
Visit Syracuse Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
7
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Schuylkill Community Action

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…

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9
The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

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…

Unclassified
10
Senior Citizens Council of Clinton County Inc

Provide programs and nutrition for senior citizens

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11
Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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12
Schenectady County Chapter Nysarc Inc

To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schenectady Community Action Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROSE GARDEN RESTORATION COMMITTEE: $493,359 · EnvironmentROSE GARDEN RESTORATION COMMITTEECITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY: $27,500 · OtherCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADYSCHENECTADY GUYANESE COMM CTR: $25,000 · OtherSCHENECTADY GUYANESE COMM CTRSCHENETADY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherSCHENETADY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYNOTRE DAME: $20,000 · OtherNOTRE DAMEIndividual grant recipient: $16,250 · OtherCORNELL COOPERATIVE EXT: $15,000 · OtherSUNNYVIEW HOSPITAL: $15,000 · OtherCREATE Community Studios: $15,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC: $12,500 · OtherSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $12,500 · OtherFAMILY & CHILD SERVICES: $12,000 · Other+17 more: $118,500 · Other+17 moreSCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOHARIE RIV…EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureEMPIRE STATE …SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,480 · Arts & CultureSCHENECTADY C…EMPIRE STATE AEROSCIENCES MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureEMPIRE STATE …SCHENECTADY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCHENECTADY L…ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER A…MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF INN…Albany Barn Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAlbany Barn I…CAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $65,000 · EducationSOCIAL EN…Crossroads Center for Children: $25,000 · EducationCrossroad…RISE HIGH INC: $10,000 · EducationRISE HIGH…BRIGHTSIDE UP INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FATHERS INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $12,500 · Human Services+2 more: $3,750 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementINGERSOLL ADULT HOME INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY HOME INC DBA JOAN NICOLE PRINCE HOME: $6,600 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$493,359Other$359,250Arts & Culture$141,480Education$100,000Human Services$75,750Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$15,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROSE GARDEN RESTORATION COMMITTEE: $493,359 over 5y, 89% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY: $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCrossroads Center for Children: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE UP INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,480 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEMPIRE STATE AEROSCIENCES MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCREATE Community Studios: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSCHENECTADY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlbany Barn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRISE HIGH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetINGERSOLL ADULT HOME INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY HOME INC DBA JOAN NICOLE PRINCE HOME: $6,600 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Schenectady Found…The Community Foundat…William Gundry Brough…Price Chopper's Golub…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Wright Family Foundat…Pioneer Bank Charitab…Neil Jane William Est…JM McDonald Foundatio…United Way of the Gre…Capital District Phys…The Schenectady Found…
The Schenectady FoundationNY43.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Carlilian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carlilian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Carlilian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Carlilian Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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