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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.1MHuman Services$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$987kHealth$707kYouth Development$601kEmployment$558kEducation$475kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $1,411,382 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,611,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $200,176 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $991k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON HILL ARTS CENTER$250,000
BETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC$200,000
EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRAS$200,000
ELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$150,000
SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER$80,000
THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS$76,500
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS RENS CO$75,000
SUNY SCHENECTADY$59,882
RISSE-REFUGE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT$50,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE$50,000
GOOSE HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER NY$45,000
CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS$25,000
CAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES TRI-COUNTY SERVICES$12,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 32 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
38

Total granted

$5.9M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

91%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SC
    SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $755k · revenue +15%
  • SI
    SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $540k · revenue +52%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $474k · revenue +613%

Funded once

  • FIELD & FORK NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $240k · revenue +30%
  • SF
    SCHENECTADY FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -2%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
2
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation

The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.

Housing & Shelter
3
The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…

Unclassified
4
Family and Child Service of Schenectady

To enrich the lives of vulnerable individuals and their families by providing highly personalized in-home and community based services. also, to preserve and enhance the integrity of family life by providing cunseling, senior services,…

Education
5
Suny Cortland Child Care Center Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Cny Works Inc

To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.

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7
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.

Recreation & Sports
8
Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy Inc

Schuyler center for analysis and advocacy is dedicated to shaping and advancing public policy solutions that improve the well-being of disenfranchised new york state residents.

Public Benefit
9
Children's Center of New Paltz Inc

Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.

Human Services
10
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc

Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.

Housing & Shelter
11
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility Inc

To provide multiple social service activities to all city of syracuse residents, although operations are geared to serve primarily those residents of the near southwest side of the city.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Community Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation At Ease Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Jewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Ymca Youth DevelopmentLocal History MuseumsYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%3/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,485

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.

03the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 82 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
43/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $540,300 · OtherSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INCCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY — $408,000 · OtherCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADYSCHENECTADY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $347,845 · OtherSCHENECTADY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y — $332,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF…FIELD & FORK NETWORK — $240,000 · OtherFIELD & FORK NETWORKMESSIAH LUTHERAN — $150,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL — $150,000 · OtherBOARD OF TRUSTEES-SCHENECTADY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $150,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC — $270,750 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC+33 more — $1,372,300 · Other+33 moreSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $755,000 · Human ServicesSCHENECTADY COMMU…YWCA OF SCHENECTADY — $180,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SCHENECTA…BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA HOUSE OF…BRIGHTSIDE UP INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTSIDE UP INCSCHENECTADY DAY NURSERY INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $119,500 · Human Services+4 moreEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $345,000 · Arts & CultureEMPIRE STATE YO…Hamilton Hill Drop In Arts & Crafts Center Inc — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHamilton Hill D…ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC — $162,410 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER AND…SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOHARIE RIVER…MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE — $107,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF INNOV…Albany Barn Inc — $85,000 · Arts & CultureAlbany Barn IncVALE CEMETERY PRESERVATION INC — $65,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $474,400 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL …FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $250,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD PANT…Luken Daily Bread Food Pantry Inc — $50,000 · Food & NutritionLuken Dai…+1 more — $7,500 · Food & NutritionBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterBETTER CO…THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC — $326,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMU…SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $112,382 · EducationCrossroads Center for Children — $106,000 · EducationSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $75,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY — $75,000 · EducationDESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $62,800 · Education518 ELEVATED INC — $54,000 · Education+3 more — $50,300 · EducationSCHENECTADY FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES — $200,000 · HealthELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE — $150,000 · HealthTHE DON'T WAIT PROJECT — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $45,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · Health
Other$3,961,195Human Services$1,374,500Arts & Culture$1,234,410Food & Nutrition$781,900Housing & Shelter$726,500Education$605,482Health$450,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $755,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $540,300 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $474,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY — $408,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $400,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $345,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC — $326,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC — $270,750 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $250,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFIELD & FORK NETWORK — $240,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSCHENECTADY FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA OF SCHENECTADY — $180,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC — $162,410 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL — $150,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetELLIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC THE FOUNDATION FOR ELLIS MEDICINE — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC — $140,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $112,382 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC — $111,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCREATE Community Studios — $108,800 over 5y, 27% of budgetMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE — $107,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCrossroads Center for Children — $106,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE UP INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAlbany Barn Inc — $85,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSCHENECTADY DAY NURSERY INC — $70,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetDESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL — $70,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY — $70,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVALE CEMETERY PRESERVATION INC — $65,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $62,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION AT EASE INC — $61,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSchenectady Greenmarket Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 13% of budget518 ELEVATED INC — $54,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE DON'T WAIT PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCAPITAL ROOTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCOA HOUSE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWELFARE RESEARCH INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHENECTADY YOUTH BOXING & FITNESS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMUSIC HAVEN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL INC — $40,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetWORKING GROUP ON GIRLS OF SCHENECTADY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetMEDIATION MATTERS INC — $34,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of the Gre…Price Chopper's Golub…William Gundry Brough…The Carlilian Foundat…Pioneer Bank Charitab…The Schenectady Found…Wright Family Foundat…Neil Jane William Est…Capital District Phys…Review FoundationMvp Health Plan Inc
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY78.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Schenectady 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Schenectady Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schenectady Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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