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The Edward D Cammarota Foundation Inc

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.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$675kHuman Services$575kReligion$435kHousing & Shelter$330kEducation$135kCrime & Legal$105kFood & Nutrition$83kHealth$80k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC$45,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY$45,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC$35,000
518 ELEVATED INC$30,000
SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY$20,000
CONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC$18,000
NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY IN$15,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $55k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $55k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $55k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $50k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45k → 12%BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $40k → 12%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $50k → 12%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$2.4M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+70%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BH
    BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +160%
  • SI
    SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +59%
  • 5E
    518 ELEVATED INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TO
    THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
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
Ywca of Schenectady

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, andpromoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
2
Schenectady County Chapter Nysarc Inc

To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.

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3
Family and Child Service of Schenectady

To enrich the lives of vulnerable individuals and their families by providing highly personalized in-home and community based services. also, to preserve and enhance the integrity of family life by providing cunseling, senior services,…

Education
4
Better Community Neighborhoods Inc

Through local knowledge, expertise and partnerships, develop and deliver resources to create opportunity for present and future neighborhood residents through quality, affordable housing activities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Under 21

Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…

Human Services
6
Seneca County Council On Homelessness Inc

Homeless shelter

Human Services
7
Schenectady Youth Hockey Association

The association conducts nonprofessional ice programs for youths to develop interest and an understanding of the game of ice hockey through competitive supervised instructional activities.

Recreation & Sports
8
Syracuse Urban Partnership Inc
Philanthropy
9
Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation

Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.

Community Improvement
10
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.

Recreation & Sports
11
Schenectady Community Action Program Inc

Schenectady community action program is committed to alleviating the symptoms and eradicating the causes of poverty by helping people help themselves when they are in economic, social, or educational need. we do this by identifying…

Human Services
12
Etc Housing Corporation Evergreen Townhomes

Etc operates a facility that offers multiple units of temporary housing for homeless individuals and families and multiple units of permanenet supported housing for individuals and families. etc also provides services to individuals who…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northeastern Association of the Blind At Albany 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $435,000 · OtherSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC - SCHENECTA: $180,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC - SC…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY INC: $150,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY …Individual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC: $80,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT AL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $385,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SC…GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER C…BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $435,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHE…THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN …518 ELEVATED INC: $255,000 · Education518 ELEVATE…SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY: $105,000 · Crime & LegalCONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $83,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$935,000Youth Development$555,000Human Services$485,000Education$255,000Crime & Legal$105,000Food & Nutrition$83,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $435,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $435,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $385,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budget518 ELEVATED INC: $255,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $170,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY: $105,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $83,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% 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 BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
  • Who funds 518 ELEVATED INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY ↗
  • Who funds CONCERNED FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Wright Family Foundation Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · JM McDonald Foundation 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 Edward D Cammarota Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward D Cammarota Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 12 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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