· Private foundation
The Little Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $775,722 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $791,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $598k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rise High Inc | $150,000 |
| Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region | $140,000 |
| Young Parents United Inc | $70,727 |
| Ellis Medicine Foundation | $70,563 |
| Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region | $60,000 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $55,802 |
| Rise High Inc | $50,798 |
| Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region | $40,000 |
| Mom Starts Here Inc | $40,000 |
| City Mission of Schenectady | $25,540 |
| Guyanese International Charitable Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Schenectady | $10,642 |
| Army Emergency Relief | $10,000 |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $5,000 |
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k 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
- RHRISE HIGH INC4× · 2019–2024 · $421k · revenue +132% · 77% of their budget
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute2× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue +13%- BCBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $113k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SISCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $261k · revenue +11%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubone grant, 2020 · $160k
- CMCITY MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +131% · 64% of their budget
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Accelerate economic opportunity in albany/ny's capital region by developing and implementing strategies to attract, expand, and create businesses and jobs, and provide catalytic leadership, working with partners and stakeholders to shape a…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Ccsi's mission is to inspire innovation in practice by providing essental business services in partnership with organizations that improve lives and strengthen communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Service of Schenectady and the most unlike its peers is Dharithree Usa 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 38 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 YOUNG PARENTS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RISE HIGH INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MOM STARTS HERE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dharithree USA Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FATHERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL 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: Wright Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Schenectady Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation Inc · The Carlilian Foundation · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · The Broadview Cares Foundation 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.
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