· Private foundation
The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $56k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIDNEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $27,000 |
| ACHIEVE | $5,000 |
| SUNY ONEONTA | $5,000 |
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC | $4,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FDN | $1,000 |
| ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SAM AND ADELE GOLDEN FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +38%
- PVPATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +59%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SOSOCK OUT CANCER LLCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- VHVERA HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -41%
- HAHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF CHENANGOone 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.
Chenango united way builds partnerships and maximizes resources to improve the quality of life for local residents in the focus areas of income, education and health.
The chemung county historical society seeks to deepen our audience's understanding of the past and the role of histroy in our future. to achieve this, the society uses diverse and evolving collections to engage audiences through…
The Kensico Cemetery is a non-sectarian not-for-profit membership corporation and as such is a regulated cemetery corporation under New York State law. It consists of 460 acres dedicated to cemetery use. It is a service organization…
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
To promote historical, genealogical and antiquarian research, to collect & preserve books, papers, maps, etc and to publish results of such research.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
The organization's mission is to celebrate the history, architecture, landscape and material culture of the hudson valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.
The creation of exceptionally high quality, affordable, professional, non-profit theatre to engage and educate a diverse audience, both traditional and non-traditional.
To promote the study of the history of venango county and its general area and to develop an interest in the study of venango county and its citizens.
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
Woodlawn cemetery serves the community as an eternal resting place; commemorating the lives of those interred; conserving, restoring and sustaining the physical attributes, horticultural aspects, buildings and infrastructure of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chenango County Spca and the most unlike its peers is William B Ogden Free Library. 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 45 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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 6% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Northeast Classic Car Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds RICKY J PARISIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM B OGDEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WALTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT THE PALACE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMERCE CHENANGO INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ON THE DELAWARE 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: The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Greater Norwich Foundation · The Everett & Pearl Gilmour Foundation Inc · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · The R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · The Nycm Foundation · The Higley Foundation Inc · Raymond Foundation · The Richard L & Marian P Cook 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 Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe 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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