· Private foundation
The Peter Browning Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA | $15,000 |
| STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA | $15,000 |
| DISCOVER CAYUGA LAKE INC | $10,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ITHACA | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF ITHACA | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $5,000 |
| GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| FINGER LAKES REUSE INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ITHACA | $5,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- STSTATE THEATRE OF ITHACA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +38%
Cornell University5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +23%- PRPALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION2× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CLCAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +21%
- CCINAMAPOLISone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 center for the arts at ithaca, inc., d/b/a the hangar theatre, is committed to providing exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the finger lakes…
Committed to providing families with the highest standard of child-inspired, professionally-nurtured care and opportunities for learning.
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…
The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
Lead toursim economic growth and development through exemplary promotion of the finger lakes region as a world class destination.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Discover Cayuga Lake Inc and the most unlike its peers is Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH ANN CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ITHACA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Discover Cayuga Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH ART CORPORATION OF ITHACA ↗
- Who funds WSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK 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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Martin F Hatch Fund for Religious & Charitable Uses · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Peter Browning Family Foundation 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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