How much did THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Food & Nutrition$909kHuman Services$305kCommunity Improvement$159kArts & Culture$114kEducation$93kYouth Development$24kHousing & Shelter$22kEnvironment$20kOther$364k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

patriots basketball

2019

socialindividualprideartstudiosart-makingneighborhood

2020

covid emergencyresponse ppeemergency responsechild carecovid recoverystudiosart-making

2021

food boxbox deliveryneighborhood challengepark

2023

marketparkneighborhood challengefood

2024

neighborhood challengeparkhill

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k5 grants · $87k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$17,824

Median grant

States reached

$663k

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+53%

Still filing today

82%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

RF
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NENY
8× · 2017–2024 · $891k · revenue +613%
SC
SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
4× · 2019–2022 · $237k · revenue +27%
SL
SCHENECTADY LAND BANK
5× · 2019–2024 · $159k · revenue +56%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF THE WOODLAWN
one grant, 2019 · $55k
SA
SCHENECTADY ARC
one grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue -59%
YO
YWCA OF SCHENECTADYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +73%

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

04Your 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.

Downtown Schenectady Improvement

Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.

Community Improvement

Jewish Community Center of Schenectady

Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.

Religion

Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

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

Recreation & Sports

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

Senior Citizens Council of Clinton

Provide programs and nutrition for senior citizens

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Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture

Food Bank of Central New York

Food acquisition and distribution

Food & Nutrition

Seneca County Council On Homelessness Inc

Homeless shelter

Human Services

Schenectady Day Nursery Inc

Child day care services

Human Services

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental

To inspire meaningful connections between people and nature.

Environment

Schenectady Greenmarket Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Samaritan Center Inc

To serve food to those in need in a caring setting, at no charge, 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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schenectady Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Arts Center and Theatre of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$908,800Other$405,893Human Services$304,625Community Improvement$158,989Arts & Culture$114,299Education$93,485Youth Development$24,438

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.

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 Schenectady FoundationNY44.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Schenectady Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · Gideon Lodge #140 · William Gundry Broughton · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Wright Family 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821094458 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Schenectady Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Schenectady Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schenectady Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schenectady Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph