New York · Public charity
The Schenectady Foundation
The mission of THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION is to achieve sustainable improvement in the health and welfare of people, organizations and neighborhoods in schenectady county through the investment of philanthropic resources.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $56M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Schenectady Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.4M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $882k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $785k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $795k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $839k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schenectady Community Action Program Inc | $755,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Schenectady Inner City Ministry Inc | $540,300 | 5 | 5% |
| Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc | $474,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Better Community Neighborhoods Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Schenectady County Public Library | $347,845 | 4 | n/a |
| Empire State Youth Orchestra Inc | $345,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Cooperative Extension Association in the State of N Y | $332,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Community Builders Inc | $326,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc | $270,750 | 5 | 4% |
| Hamilton Hill Drop In Arts & Crafts Center Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 78 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Schenectady Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Carlilian Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation Inc · Wright Family Foundation Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Review Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc
How this is measured
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About The Schenectady Foundation
- How much does The Schenectady Foundation give?
- The Schenectady Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $1,411,382, out of $1,611,558 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Schenectady Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Schenectady Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Schenectady Community Action Program Inc ($755k), Schenectady Inner City Ministry Inc ($540k), Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc ($474k).
- Does The Schenectady Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Schenectady Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, United Way of the Greater Capital Region, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.
- Where is The Schenectady Foundation based?
- The Schenectady Foundation is based in NY.
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