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The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$56kReligion$44kArts & Culture$31kEnvironment$23kPhilanthropy$16kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$545k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINGERLAKES LAND TRUST$5,000
AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$3,000
ABC CAYUGA INC PLAY SPACE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THE REV THEATER CO$2,000
MATTHEW HOUSE INC$2,000
SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS$1,500
MINSTRO MINISTRIES$1,500
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH$1,500
SS MARY MARTHA PARISH$1,500
TYBURN ACADEMY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MINISTO MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%MINISTRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%MINSTRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%MINSTRO MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$195k · 22 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
18

Total granted

$195k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-12%

Still filing today

45%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TC
    THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +51%
  • AP
    AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +116%
  • TF
    The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SB
    STAND BY ME
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

1
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
2
Friends of Appleby College (United States) Inc

Friends of appleby college (united states), inc. fka argus society, inc. is a supporting organization of appleby college located in oakville, ontario, canada. the organization's purpose is to assist the college in supporting appleby…

Education
3
Auburn Community Foundation

The Auburn Community Foundation grows local giving to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
4
Auburn Community Hospital Foundation Inc

To operate exclusively for the benefit of, by providing fundraising and financial assistance to auburn community hospital, inc, auburn community companies, inc, auburn community properties, inc, and any other organizations with the same or…

Health
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Faculty Student Association of Cayuga County Community College Inc

Faculty student association - administration of the activities and organizations of the students of cayuga community college.

Education
7
Auburn Public Library

Auburn public library brings people, resources and ideas together toengage, enlighten and enrich the community. auburn public library'sgoals are to help customers of all generations learn, grow, and havefun; prepare children to start…

Education
8
Alfred University

Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…

Education
9
Oswego University Foundation Inc

Raise and manage private support to advance the mission of the state university of new york at oswego. founded in 1947, the foundation was established to foster, encourage, promote and support the scientific, literary, educational and…

Education
10
Auburn University Foundation

The organization operates for the exclusive benefit of auburn university, an educational, land grant institution.

Education
11
Auburn University Real Estate Foundation Inc

The organization operates for the exclusive benefit of auburn university foundation, a nonprofit corporation which was organized for the support of auburn university, an educational, land-grant institution.

Education
12
Augusta University Foundation Inc

To raise private support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and others to further the interests of augusta university. other purposes of the foundation are to establish and maintain endowments and provide the administration for…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ministro Ministries Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientABC CAYUGA INC PLAY SPACE — $10,000 · OtherABC CAYUGA INC PLAY SPACESISTERS OF ST JOSEPH — $9,500 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHSS MARY MARTHA PARISH — $9,000 · OtherSS MARY MARTHA PARISHST JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY — $5,000 · OtherSTAND BY ME — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+21 more — $41,700 · Other+21 moreAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC — $27,000 · Arts & CultureAUBURN PUBLI…The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $22,500 · EnvironmentThe Finger…UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC — $11,000 · PhilanthropyABC CAYUGA INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCreighton University — $5,000 · EducationAUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · EducationTYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC — $4,000 · EducationONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,800 · EducationMATTHEW HOUSE INC — $10,700 · HealthMINISTRO MINISTRIES INC — $6,500 · Human Services
Other$142,200Arts & Culture$27,000Environment$22,500Philanthropy$16,000Education$15,300Health$10,700Human Services$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC — $27,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE INC — $10,700 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMINISTRO MINISTRIES INC — $6,500 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetABC CAYUGA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCreighton University — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 207 — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC
  • Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds MATTHEW HOUSE INC
  • Who funds MINISTRO MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds ABC CAYUGA INC
  • Who funds Creighton University
  • Who funds AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC
  • Who funds ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 207

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.

Fred L Emerson Foundation IncNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · De French Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc · Columbian Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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