· Public charity
The Scriven Foundation
To support mary imogene bassett hospital, and other charitable entities in otsego county, new york.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGBROOK | $300,000 |
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $215,000 |
| OTSEGO LAND TRUST INC | $200,000 |
| OTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $175,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC | $105,000 |
| OTSEGO 2000 | $95,000 |
| LEAF INC | $80,000 |
| HYDE HALL INC | $80,000 |
| CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC (DBA HELIOS CARE) | $75,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC | $60,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC | $60,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF COOPERSTOWN | $52,000 |
| THE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA NY INC | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TMThe Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital5× · 2018–2023 · $79M · revenue +40%
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +193%
- OCOTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +102% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $331k
- PVPATHFINDER VILLAGE INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +11%
- WFWORCESTER FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue -65% · 25% of their budget
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.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
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.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Forum for community concerns
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…
The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.
To inspire partnerships and provide services that empower people, support communities and change lives.
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…
Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.
Established for the purpose of stimulating planning, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization in the city of newburgh, new york.
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Free Library. 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 44 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 66 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 The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBROOK NY INC ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds HYDE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEATHERSTOCKING EDUCATION ON ALCOHOLISM/ADDICTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OTSEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Richfield Springs Youth Ministry Corp ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL NY LTD ↗
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: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · C J Heilig Foundation Inc · Dewar Foundation Inc · The Nycm Foundation · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Willies Family Foundation · The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam · Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr 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 Scriven 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.
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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