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The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$393k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Food & Nutrition$250kHousing & Shelter$243kHuman Services$148kYouth Development$147kEducation$144kArts & Culture$122kAnimals$69kPhilanthropy$48kCommunity Improvement$43kOther$604k
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $256k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD PANTIRES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT$40,000
COHOES CONNECT PROJECT INC$32,000
EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC$30,000
SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
JUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC$15,000
OPERATION SNIP INC$13,000
YWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC$12,688
THE BABY INSTITUTE$12,500
WHISKERS INC$12,000
THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION$12,000
STARS INTERGEN INC$12,000
OUR ABILITY INC$10,000
BLUE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,000
INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC$10,000
STRIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC: $15k → 14%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $20k → 11%SOUTH & CHILDREN'S CAFE INC: $10k → 14%SOUTH END CHILDREN'S CAFE: $5k → 14%JUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC: $4k → 14%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $10k → 11%OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 11%OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF HUDSON VALLEY INC: $3k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $15k → 14%SENIOR HOPE COUNSELING INC: $5k → 14%ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER: $5k → 14%ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER: $2k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY: $15k → 14%THE BABY INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%THE BABY INSTITUTE: $4k → 14%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.
$1.5M · 50 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
28

Total granted

$1.5M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+11%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • JH
    JOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +37%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $132k · revenue +242%
  • FP
    FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TA
    TRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC (MUSIC STUDIO)
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Albany County Opportunity Inc

Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.

Human Services
2
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
3
Accesscny Inc

Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…

Health
4
The Arc of the Capital Area

We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.

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5
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…

Health
6
Home Headquarters Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Acacia Network Housing Inc

Provides temporary housing and housing assistance to homeless families and singles in new york city; provides ancillary social services, food, clothing, access to medical services and finds permanent housing and jobs to those families.

Housing & Shelter
8
Samaritan Center Inc

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.

—
9
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
10
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
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
Business and Career Services Inc

Access to quality services provided through a network of dedicated organizations designed to meet the workforce needs of business, job-seekers, and the community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Enterprise and Training Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Snip Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr10%7%5–10yr16%20%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr27%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%3%<5yr10%1%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr27%13%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
8%
322/3,892

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.

05the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
42/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY — $69,895 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANYSTRIDE Inc — $45,000 · OtherSTRIDE IncFAMILY PROMISE OF ALBANY COUNTY — $35,000 · OtherSCHODACK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — $30,698 · OtherFOCUS CHURCHES — $29,172 · OtherARK INC — $25,800 · OtherWHISKERS INC — $35,650 · OtherOperation Snip Inc — $26,000 · OtherSCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · OtherSCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FO…+45 more — $418,936 · Other+45 moreREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $132,033 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD B…FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD PANTRIES F…HOPE FULL LIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $7,500 · Food & NutritionJOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterJOSEPH'S HOUSE …INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $42,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH PART…ALBANY HOUSING COALITION INC — $21,250 · Housing & ShelterALBANY HOUSING …ST PAUL'S CENTER INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterST PAUL'S CENTE…INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesINDEPENDE…JUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC — $18,690 · Human ServicesJUSTICE F…BABY INSTITUTE INC — $16,750 · Human ServicesBABY INST…Family Promise of the Capital Region Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesFamily Pr…HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …South End Childrens Cafe Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesSouth End…OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesOAKWOOD C…COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR HOPE COUNSELING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE COHOES CONNECT PROJECT INC — $95,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COHOE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA — $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …518 ELEVATED INC — $41,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $26,831 · EducationSCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationSTARS INTERGEN CORPORATION — $18,250 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY — $14,515 · EducationCrossroads Center for Children — $10,000 · EducationTECH VALLEY CENTER OF GRAVITY INC — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $8,476 · EducationEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $62,500 · Arts & CultureX-QUEST INC — $31,400 · Arts & CultureUNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORY PROJECT OF THE CAPITAL REGIONINC — $20,250 · Arts & CultureWAMC — $8,334 · Arts & Culture
Other$763,651Food & Nutrition$249,533Housing & Shelter$243,250Human Services$148,440Youth Development$146,500Education$144,072Arts & Culture$122,484

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 budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC — $160,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $132,033 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COHOES CONNECT PROJECT INC — $95,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY — $69,895 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $62,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA — $51,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetSTRIDE Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget518 ELEVATED INC — $41,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWHISKERS INC — $35,650 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetX-QUEST INC — $31,400 over 4y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $26,831 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Snip Inc — $26,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & RESOURCE CENTER INC — $22,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALBANY HOUSING COALITION INC — $21,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORY PROJECT OF THE CAPITAL REGIONINC — $20,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST PAUL'S CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ORPHANS INC — $18,690 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSTARS INTERGEN CORPORATION — $18,250 over 2y, 23% of budgetGRASSROOT GIVERS INC — $18,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL — $17,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBABY INSTITUTE INC — $16,750 over 1y, 14% of budgetFamily Promise of the Capital Region Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSouth End Childrens Cafe Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY — $14,515 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $13,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $12,688 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE FULL LIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCrossroads Center for Children — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAMC — $8,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHIVE OF HOPE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE WILDLIFE SERVICES INC — $7,147 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEK RN CONSULTING INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTECH VALLEY CENTER OF GRAVITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT ANNE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADIX ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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…Price Chopper's Golub…Review FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Capital District Phys…Pioneer Bank Charitab…The Troy Savings Bank…William Gundry Brough…JM McDonald Foundatio…Mvp Health Plan IncGideon Lodge #140 B'N…Sunmark Charitable Co…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY88.4× affinity42 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 · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community 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 Seymour Fox Memorial 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 88 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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