· Private foundation
The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHENANGO VALLEY HOME | $75,000 |
| NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATIO | $50,000 |
| MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PROMOTE OXFORD NOW | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL EDU | $15,000 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | $15,000 |
| NORWICH THEATER COMPANY INC | $12,600 |
| THE IMPACT PROJECT | $12,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,494 |
| EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE | $7,312 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,250 |
| AUNT MARY'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NO | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OTSELIC VALLEY FISHING HERITAGE ASS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +59%
- MCMORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +203%
- TCTHE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS2× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- NBNORWICH BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +52% · 60% of their budget
- CGCHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -61%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To serve our members and the people of chenango county through partnership with businesses and all levels of government,to leverage resources for sustainable economic growth.
Promote develope expouse to art
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
Provide Nursery School services.
Chenango memorial hospital foundation, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation organized to provide funds for the improvement of patient care at chenango memorial hospital.
The purpose of the clemens center is to enhance the quality of life for all the region's residents by providing a diversity of excellent performing arts programming in a superior facility.
To provide childcare services for approximately 140 children in the hamilton, ny area.
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.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in…
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chenango Housing Improvement Prgm Inc and the most unlike its peers is 6 On the Square 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 30 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PRGM INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Classic Car Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE IMPACT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWICH BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE OXFORD NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds South New Berlin Free Library ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY BLUES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORWICH THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUNT MARY'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF SCNY INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RECOVERY DEDICATED TO OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds 6 ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE 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 R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Greater Norwich Foundation · The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Everett & Pearl Gilmour Foundation Inc · The Higley Foundation Inc · Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust · The Nycm Foundation · The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation · Preferred Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Raymond 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 Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP 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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