· Private foundation
The Cayuga Foundation Pfdn
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK | $9,000 |
| FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY | $8,000 |
| UNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| DISCOVER CAYUGA LAKE | $6,500 |
| LAKEVIEW CEMETERY | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES | $6,000 |
| THE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUS | $5,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $4,500 |
| VILLAGE OF UNION SPRINGS | $3,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +16% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TFThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +24%
- FHFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +0%
- LVLAKE VIEW CEMETERY CO INC2× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- FHFOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -100%
- TNTHE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICEone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -9%
- TPTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FORone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The chautauqua watershed conservancy's mission is to preserve and enhance the water quality, scenic beauty, and ecological health of the lakes, streams, and watersheds of the chautauqua region.
Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…
Cayuga medical center will remain the region's leading hospital, healthcare provider, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. we empower our people and employ our capabilities to equitably…
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Woodlawn cemetery serves the community as an eternal resting place; commemorating the lives of those interred; conserving, restoring and sustaining the physical attributes, horticultural aspects, buildings and infrastructure of the…
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Woodland pond, inc. dba woodland pond at new paltz, was created to construct and operate a continuing care retirement community (the "ccrc") named woodland pond at new paltz, under article 46 of new york state public health law.the ccrc…
The conservancy engages community involvement through 1) programs and services to enhance the park visitor experience; 2) co-management of the park's award-winning "volunteer in parks" (vip) program; 3) education programs for school age…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cayuga Counseling Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peachtown Elementary School. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
27 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. 27 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 WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE VIEW CEMETERY CO INC ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Discover Cayuga Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL CENTER AT OCEAN REEF INC ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA FREE LIBRARY ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · De French Foundation Inc · Arthur J Bellinzoni Foundation · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cayuga Foundation Pfdn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.