· Private foundation
The Higley Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATIO | $255,000 |
| BROAD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $107,500 |
| AUNT MARY'S HOUSE | $75,000 |
| IMPACT PROJECT | $45,000 |
| NORTHEAST CLASSIC CAR MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY BLUES SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CNY | $20,000 |
| PROMOTE OXFORD NOW | $16,700 |
| CHENANGO VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO ASSN | $15,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $12,000 |
| COLORSCAPE | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,600 |
| THE BANDERA FAMILY COMMUNITY ALLIAN | $5,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- NBNORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $928k · revenue +14% · 47% of their budget
- NCNortheast Classic Car Museum Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $780k · revenue +18% · 36% of their budget
- CCCHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIone grant, 2019 · $500k
- TOTOWN OF OXFORDone grant, 2021 · $200k
- HOHOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue -7%
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 mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
Provides residential adult care for facility occupants who are unable to live independently.
To operate as a tax free entity to enlighten the public of the history of the beginning of the town and it is all volunteer based work
To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.
The organization's mission is to create, provide, and maintain housing for elderly and low income families.
To reverse the trend of further deterioration of the County of Chautauqua's housing and commercial stock; control and modestly improve promising properties so that reputable buyers can be attracted.
The newburgh preservation association rebuilds, preserves, and promotes the architectural heritage and historic viewsheds of newburgh, new york.
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
Rehabilitation of the historic john green house
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
To administer section 8 housing in clinton and essex counties, ny while also assisting low income resident complete home purchases and home renovations to maintain safe and adequate housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Improve Norwich Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Toys for Tots Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 37 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
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 NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Classic Car Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE IMPACT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE NORWICH NOW INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AUNT MARY'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY BLUES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE OXFORD NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · The Greater Norwich Foundation · The R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation · Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · Raymond Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York 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 Higley Foundation 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.
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.
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