· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -27%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Higley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Higley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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