· Private foundation
The Phinney Charitable Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAYTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC | $13,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC | $2,500 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC | $587 |
| CLAYTON AREA PRESCHOOL | $525 |
| NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC | $400 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL SADD | $350 |
| CLAYTON ROTARY CLUB | $250 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS ARTS CENTER | $250 |
| CLAYTON FIRE DEPT INC | $250 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS EMERGENCY RESCUE SERVICE INC | $225 |
| GREG P WILEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $150 |
| CLAYTON FIGURE SKATING CLUB | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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 +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225 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
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC4× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +31%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +10%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $837 · revenue +177%
Funded once
- TTIERSone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $900
- NCNORTH COUNTRY TROOPERS ASSISTING TROOPS INCone grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue +7%
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.
Historic preservation of thacher island, straitsmouth island, its lighthouses, buildings and facilities
Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance
Provide theatre to the general public
Encourage conservation & protection of natural & agricultural lands in the lake erie islands for the benefit of this & future generations through purchase of land & sponsorship of programs & walks at these preserves.
To promote the performing arts
Youth hockey instruction
Conserve land for plants and animals
Museum - public exhibitions, education, research
Strenghten the foundations of our organization while attaining financial sustainability through diversification, engagement, and expansion of our porgrams, displays, and outreach to enhance our ability to provide education and promote…
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Islands Performing Arts Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Country Troopers Assisting Troops Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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 CLAYTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY TROOPERS ASSISTING TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDWEAVING MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANTON MINOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS EMERGENCY RESCUE SERVICE 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: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundation · The Boathouse Foundation · Twin Trees Foundationinc · Edward John Noble Foundation Inc · The Delaney Bay Fund Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Phinney Charitable Foundation Inc 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.