Education$7.7MPhilanthropy$7.0MArts & Culture$6.1MHuman Services$3.4MHealth$3.1MEnvironment$2.1MHousing & Shelter$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.5MOther$16M

02FY2024 · 286 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 286 grants below total $5,313,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,523,651 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,210,331 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k115 grants · $729k
$10k–50k147 grants · $2.8M
$50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M

$10,250

Median grant

States reached

$120M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE (MISCI)	$180,000
ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$138,250
ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$127,700
IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES RESPONSE COLLABORATIVE INC	$100,000
PENDRAGON THEATRE	$100,000
HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$100,000
DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH	$92,800
HUDSON TACONIC LANDS	$81,000
IPHNY INC	$77,700
COMFORT FOOD COMMUNITY	$68,000
TRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION	$66,191
PARKS & TRAILS NEW YORK	$64,258
THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION	$61,400
RADIX ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY CENTER	$60,000
UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$55,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$37M · 318 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

318 repeat relationships — 182 still active in FY2024, 136 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

318

259

Total granted

$37M

$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+26%

Still filing today

80%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

AL
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL
5× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +14%
TA
TRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $977k · revenue +105%
CR
CAPITAL ROOTS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $767k · revenue +53%

Funded once

TB
THE BUTTONWOOD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +66% · 93% of their budget
AB
Albany Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -86% · 99% of their budget
NC
NORTH COUNTRY MINISTRY
one grant, 2017 · $158k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition

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

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy

Leadingage New York Inc

Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…

Civil Rights

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

New York Council for the Humanities

The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.

Arts & Culture

United Way of New York State

To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.

Philanthropy

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Service of Schenectady and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%10/651

the rest of the field

10%

4,812/45,900

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.

05the grantee network

542 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. 542 of the 653 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

166

Early backer (in before they grew)

519/542

Grantees still filing

382/542

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,968,992Philanthropy$6,847,372Education$6,824,701Arts & Culture$5,018,881Human Services$2,536,647Health$2,455,198Environment$1,816,539

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Review FoundationNY161.7× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Review Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Bender Family Foundation · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Carl E Touhey 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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines