· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YMCA OF ITHACA | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DISCOVER CAYUGA LAKE INC | $10,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ITHACA | $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 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ITHACA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peter Browning Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter Browning Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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