· Private foundation
The James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE JAMES V TESORIERO CHARITABLE FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORY TRANSFORMATION CENTER | $10,500 |
| UNITY ACRES | $4,500 |
| HUMAN CONCERNS | $4,000 |
| OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| PEACEFUL REMEDIES | $1,000 |
| PAWS ACROSS OSWEGO COUNTY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF OSWEGO | $1,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $1,000 |
| OSWEGO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FRIEND OF CAMP HOLLIS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOSPICE IN OSWEGO COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ROAD 2 RECOVERY CNY | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CNY | $500 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $500 |
| OSWEGO TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART | $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 (FY18–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OUOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +45%
- HCHUMAN CONCERNS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +280%
- FOFRIENDS OF CAMP HOLLIS INC4× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +69% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New Yorkgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +62%
- SCSAVE - CENTRAL NEW YORKone grant, 2021 · $1k
- PAPAWS ACROSS OSWEGO COone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
To bring together those interested in history especially the history of the city of onaga and the surrounding area
Provide christmas gifts & food
The organization supports the local high school band and color guard.
Emergency services serving owego and the surrounding tioga county through volunteer work.
Performances & recitals
Welfare of animals
To preserve and potect the heritage, historical sites, and artifacts of otsego county for the benefit of future generations.
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
Economic job devel oswego county, ny
A community based organization of interested citizens committed to the goal of enriching and enhancing educational opportunities for the youth of Community School District 308 by providing funding beyond the normal operating budget of the…
Hospice program assistance
Provide instruction and coaching along with necessary equipment and facilities to youth who wish to learn and participate in Little League Baseball.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oswego University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oswego County Autism Task Force. 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 27 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP HOLLIS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL REMEDIES INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY AUTISM TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO BOOKMOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS ACROSS OSWEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK LEIGHTON HSA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY POLICE CLUB ↗
- Who funds BUCCANEER BOOSTERSINC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF OSWEGO ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF OSWEGO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT ONTARIO 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: Richard S Shineman Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Tarandi Foundation · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation 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 James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund 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.