· Private foundation
THE LINK FOUNDATION CO Chemung Canal Trust Company
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $343k
- $250k+1 grant · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Florida Atlantic University Foundat | $311,501 |
| Dartmouth College | $195,334 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $77,500 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $70,000 |
| Ocean Research Conservation Assoc | $40,000 |
| Binghamton University Foundation | $35,350 |
| Georgia Research Corporation | $35,000 |
| Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute | $35,000 |
| Arizona State University | $35,000 |
| Stanford University | $35,000 |
| Kopernik Observatory Science Center | $25,000 |
| Indian River State College Foundati | $20,000 |
| The Binghamton Fund for SOM | $2,000 |
| University of Albany Foundation | $2,000 |
| Broome County Council of Churches | $1,650 |
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 (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +49%
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +120%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $309k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice Universityone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +15%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEone grant, 2023 · $34k
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +26%
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education and Research
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Broome County Council of Churches. 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 52 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 54 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 FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Broome County Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOOFS THERAPY HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds FENTON FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOME COMMUNITY 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: Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Roger Kresge Foundation Inc · The Stewart W & Willma C Hoyt Foundation Inc · Miller S & Adelaide S Gaffney Fdn · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · Avangrid Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 LINK FOUNDATION CO Chemung Canal Trust Company 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
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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