· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc
Working toward its vision of a vibrant region with opportunity for all, the community foundation supports and leads transformational initiatives and projects that build, sustain and enhance community vibrancy; stewards community resources to ensure greater capacity for future needs; and responds to rising community needs in collaboration…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 190 grants below total $7,148,755 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,304,144 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,155,389 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 $10k41 grants · $277k
- $10k–50k124 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAN | $605,499 |
| NOTRE DAME JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $442,230 |
| ANITA'S STEVENS SWAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $383,052 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY FRONTIERS CLUB | $328,961 |
| GINGERBREAD HOUSE PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER | $250,000 |
| TOWN OF TRENTON | $244,291 |
| UTICA DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $221,644 |
| VIEW | $219,188 |
| JOHNSON PARK CENTER | $159,242 |
| HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $140,153 |
| UTICA UNIVERSITY | $135,612 |
| ARTSPACE PROJECTS INC | $125,000 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $102,798 |
| 4 ELEMENTS STUDIO | $96,327 |
| ARC HERKIMER | $89,331 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
253 repeat relationships — 145 still active in FY2024, 108 since wound down; 36 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552k 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
- MVMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +459%
- ASANITA'S STEVENS SWAN HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +49% · 59% of their budget
- ICINTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +279%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -3%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SYRACUSE NYone grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +6%
- ECELMCREST CHILDREN'S CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +36%
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 humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
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.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
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.
The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighborhood Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mohawk Homestead. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
311 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. 311 of the 424 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
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.
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANITA'S STEVENS SWAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS GUILD OF OLD FORGE INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC HERKIMER COUNTY CHAPTER D/B/A ARC HERKIMER ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JCTOD OUTREACH INC D/B/A JOHNSON PARK CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE AND RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER LIFE INC DBA PARKWAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROME INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTSEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC ↗
- Who funds HERKIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY FRONTIERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE MIDTOWN UTICA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds UTICA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PETER MAURIN HOUSE INC DBA HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES 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: Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc · Rome Community Foundation · UpMobility Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable 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 Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.