· Private foundation
The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k13 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ALTERNTIVE TO ECONOMIC AND HOUSING | $10,000 |
| UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $9,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OAKWOOD CEMETERY INC | $8,000 |
| YWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC | $8,000 |
| Albany Jewish Family Services | $7,500 |
| ALBANY PRO MUSICA | $7,500 |
| HUDON MOHAWK INDUSTRIAL GATEWAY | $7,500 |
| ARTS LETTER AND NUMBERS | $6,000 |
| CIRCLE THEATRE PLAYERS AKA SAND LAKE CTR | $6,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $5,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Capital Area | $5,000 |
| TO LIFE INC | $3,700 |
| Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County | $3,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHEIVMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +75% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- TATHE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION5× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +117%
- UHUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC3× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +19%
- MAMEDIA ALLIANCE INC2× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FOFUTURE OF SMALL CITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -29%
- SAST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TLTROY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +52%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission On Economic Opportunity for the Greater Capital Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 46 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 THE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC ↗
- Who funds Albany Pro Musica Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds 518 ELEVATED INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER OF ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE OF SMALL CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TROY AREA UNITED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKWOOD CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON MOHAWK INDUSTRIAL GATEWAY ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS AND IMMERSIVE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS 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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · The McCarthy Charities Inc · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Review Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Kiwi Foundation · The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation Inc · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan 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 Howard and Bush 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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