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The Cayuga Foundation Pfdn at a glance

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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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$252kEnvironment$106kHealth$67kHuman Services$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kReligion$28kArts & Culture$26kMembership Benefit$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LAKEVIEW CEMETERY$6,500
DISCOVER CAYUGA LAKE$6,500
Individual grant recipient$6,500
HOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA$5,000
THE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUS$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$4,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$4,500
TEAM RUBICON$3,000
HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM$3,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOR HUMANITY: $9k → 11%UNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 13%CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK: $9k → 16%OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN: $6k → 13%GUNNISON RANCHLAND CONSERVATION: $8k → 10%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $149k → 17%UNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 13%THE FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST INC: $9k → 16%THE MEDICAL CENTER AT OCEAN REEFINC: $6k → 13%GUNNISON RANCHLAND CONSERVATION: $8k → 10%THE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUS: $6k → 13%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $9k → 16%OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 13%UNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 13%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $9k → 16%THE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUS: $5k → 13%DISCOVER CAYUGA LAKE: $7k → 16%CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK: $6k → 16%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $5k → 16%FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $8k → 13%FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $8k → 13%FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $8k → 13%HOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES: $8k → 13%CAYUGA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6k → 13%TRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY: $6k → 13%HOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES: $6k → 13%HOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES: $6k → 13%VILLAGE OF CAYUGA: $50k → 13%LAKEVIEW CEMETERY: $17k → 13%VILLAGE OF CAYUGA: $14k → 13%VILLAGE OF CAYUGA JOHN HARRIS PARK: $12k → 13%VILLAGE OF CAYUGA JOHN HARRIS PARK: $8k → 13%CAYUGA WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: $7k → 13%LAKEVIEW CEMETERY: $7k → 13%VILLAGE OF CAYUGA: $6k → 13%CAYUGA WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: $6k → 13%WELLS COLLEGE: $141k → 13%WELLS COLLEGE: $15k → 13%PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 13%PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 13%WELLS COLLEGE: $11k → 13%PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $11k → 13%UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA: $11k → 13%UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA: $8k → 13%PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7k → 13%WELLS COLLEGE: $6k → 13%UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA: $5k → 13%UNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$750k · 36 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
10

Total granted

$750k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-9%

Still filing today

61%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesInternationalMembership BenefitOther
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

  • TF
    The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +24%
  • FH
    FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +0%
  • LV
    LAKE VIEW CEMETERY CO INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • FH
    FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -100%
  • TN
    THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -9%
  • TP
    TRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
2
Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
3
Cayuga Medical Associates Pc

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…

Health
4
Cayuga Medical Center At Ithaca

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…

Health
5
Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council Inc

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…

Environment
6
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
7
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
8
Canandaigua Cemetery Association

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…

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9
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

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…

Environment
10
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
11
Woodland Pond Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cayuga Counseling Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $69,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED MINISTRY OF AURORA: $28,000 · OtherUNITED MINISTRY OF AURORAFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $26,000 · OtherFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INCUNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,500 · OtherUNION SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENTIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKES: $21,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE FINGER LAKESUSO: $20,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF CAYUGA JOHN HARRIS PARK: $19,500 · OtherTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $14,500 · Other+28 more: $150,000 · Other+28 moreWELLS COLLEGE: $172,500 · EducationWELLS COLLEGEPEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $44,500 · EducationPEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFOR HUMANITY: $9,000 · Education+3 more: $16,500 · Education+3 moreThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $34,000 · EnvironmentThe Finger …CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK INC: $21,500 · EnvironmentCAYUGA LAKE…Discover Cayuga Lake Inc: $16,500 · EnvironmentDiscover Ca…COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY S…OCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $17,500 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLAKE VIEW CEMETERY CO INC: $23,000 · Membership BenefitWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRONTENAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM: $14,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$397,000Education$242,500Environment$80,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,500Membership Benefit$23,000Human Services$18,000Arts & Culture$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $172,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $44,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $34,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAKE VIEW CEMETERY CO INC: $23,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK INC: $21,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDiscover Cayuga Lake Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCAYUGA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $13,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL CENTER AT OCEAN REEF INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAYUGA COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAURORA FREE LIBRARY: $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 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.

  • 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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Central New York Comm…The Stanley W Metcalf…Fred L Emerson Founda…De French Foundation …Arthur J Bellinzoni F…Community Foundation …Triad Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Central New York Community Foundation IncNY25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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