· Public charity
The Schenectady Foundation Inc
The schenectady foundation's mission is to achieve sustainable improvement in the health and welfare of people, organizations and neighborhoods in schenectady county through the investment of philanthropic resources.
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.
The 6 grants below total $146,526 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,723 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,197 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NENY | $60,000 |
| SEAT CENTER | $26,045 |
| ALBANY BARN INC | $17,824 |
| SCHENECTADY MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITY | $16,837 |
| CAPITAL REGION LAND BANK | $15,820 |
| SYCAMORE COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $891k · revenue +613%
- SCSCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC4× · 2019–2022 · $237k · revenue +15%
- ABAlbany Barn Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $92k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WOODLAWN PRESERVEone grant, 2019 · $55k
- SCSCHENECTADY COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INCone grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue -58%
- YOYWCA OF SCHENECTADYone grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +20%
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.
Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.
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.
The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.
Provide a marketplace to connect farmers and producers to the community, in order to foster sustainable farming, wholesome food, and awareness of our interdependence. To foster and organize the development of farm markets in the City and…
Child day care services
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…
Homeless shelter
Home headquarters, inc is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1996. over the past 25 years, home headquarters has been committed to creating housing and related opportunities and services in upstate new york…
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
Provide programs and nutrition for senior citizens
To coordinate efforts of volunteers to serve food to those in need and to educate the public about the needs of the poor and hungry in the city of syracuse.
Community capital is a nonprofit lender that has revitalized communities and transformed lives in the mid-hudson valley, bronx and fairfield county, ct for 36 years. our mission is to foster economic opportunity for underserved individuals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Community Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Revolution Studios Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAND REUTILIZATION CORPORATION OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds Albany Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE Community Studios ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTION STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY 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 Schenectady Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Wright Family Foundation Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · JM McDonald 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 Schenectady 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.
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