How much did THE HOWARD AND BUSH FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$112kHealth$81kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$35kCommunity Improvement$26kEducation$22kYouth Development$20kCrime & Legal$18kEnvironment$14kOther$238k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

creation

2019

enhancement

2020

arts capitalcapital regsioncollaborativecore

2021

—

2022

violence

2023

expansionsuppliesrensselaer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $79k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
HUDON MOHAWK INDUSTRIAL GATEWAY$7,500
ALBANY PRO MUSICA$7,500
Albany Jewish Family Services$7,500
ARTS LETTER AND NUMBERS$6,000
CIRCLE THEATRE PLAYERS AKA SAND LAKE CTR$6,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Capital Area$5,000
GIRLS INC$5,000
TO LIFE INC$3,700
Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County$3,500
JUNIOR ACHEIVMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NY$2,500

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 19% 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 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE HOWARD AND BUSH FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$393k · 19 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$393k

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+57%

Still filing today

84%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UH
UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD
3× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +24%
MA
MEDIA ALLIANCE INC
2× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +26%
AC
ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION
3× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +63%

Funded once

FO
FUTURE OF SMALL CITIES INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +57%
SP
ST PAULL'S CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $10k
SA
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

Syracuse Opera Company Inc

Production of professional opera performances

Arts & Culture

The Bronx Council On the Arts

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

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

Recreation & Sports

Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture

Capital Stage Company

Advancement of performing arts through live performance.

Arts & Culture

Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

To strengthen the community through arts and culture

Arts & Culture

Saratoga Arts Inc

To enrich the region by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

Upper Albany Main Street Program Inc

We preserve, revitalize, and support the commercial district, creating a center of choiceby collaborating with residents and stakeholders to foster a successful community.

Community Improvement

Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture

Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Manhattan theatre club, inc. is a leading producer of new works along with significant revivals.

Arts & Culture

Central New York Community Arts Council

Through live performances, theatrical events and educational avenues, the stanley theatre, operated by the central new york community arts council, remains the center for excellence in the arts, community engagement and economic stability…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Center of the Capital Region and the most unlike its peers is Future of Small Cities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

265/3,921

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.

06the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$289,550Arts & Culture$112,325Health$81,200Housing & Shelter$35,491Human Services$35,000Community Improvement$26,000Education$21,500

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for the GreaterNY45.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF OAKWOOD CEMETERY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 141809697 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF OAKWOOD CEMETERY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HOWARD AND BUSH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE HOWARD AND BUSH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph