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The Siegle Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$94kEducation$66kPhilanthropy$19kEnvironment$16kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$8kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$117k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMER CENTER FOR THE ARTS$9,100
Individual grant recipient$3,250
LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER$2,775
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CNY LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM$2,000
CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,500
CORTLAND COUNTY UNITED WAY$1,500
CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR$1,071
HOMER FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,050
CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE$1,000
SEVEN VALLEYS HEALTH COALITION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$625
PHILLIPS FREE LIBRARY$500
HOMER FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CORTLAND$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $250 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $200 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $150 → 16%FRANCIZKA RACKER CENTERS: $100 → 16%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $500 → 17%CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $2k → 15%CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $2k → 15%CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $1k → 15%CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $700 → 15%CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $50 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 41 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
24

Total granted

$278k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+6%

Still filing today

37%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +301%
  • CC
    CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +13%
  • LH
    LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • CS
    CORTLAND SPORTS COMPLEX INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -1%
  • 1H
    1890 HOUSE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Cortland Free Library

Providing information, materials, and programs that educate, inspire, enrich, entertain and inform; promoting the tools, skills, and techniques for literacy development, language skill acquisition, lifelong learning, recreation, and…

Education
3
Cortland County Child Development - Day Care Program Inc

To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County

Human Services
4
Cortland Community Foundation

The Foundation's major purpose is to provide grants and contributions for civic, educational and charitable programs, and for community development and low cost housing initiatives within the local community of Cortland, New York.

Philanthropy
5
Ywca Cortland

The ywca cortland is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. there are four core mission-based programs to include aid to victims of violence, health and fitness,…

Human Services
6
Cortland County Historical Society Inc

Preserving historical items

Arts & Culture
7
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
8
Cortland Downtown Partnership

To solicit receive and administer funds for educational purposes and to disseminateinformation and promote interest in the preservation history culture architecture andpublic use of cortlands traditional downtown

Arts & Culture
9
Campus Fun & Learn Child Development Center Inc

To provide safe, healthy, childcare and education for the children of parents of the rockland community college community, and the community-at-large, regardless of ethnic or racial background, color, religion, gender, physical ability,…

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10
Central New York Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Alliance Inc

Central new york lyme and tick-borne disease alliance, inc. (the "alliance") was formed for the charitable and educational purposes of serving as a collaborative of providers, scientists and community members who support research, drive…

Health
11
Corlears School

Corlears students learn, play, and grow together in a school designed for who they are at ages 2 through 10. during these crucial formative years, we build a foundation of compassion, critical thinking, imagination and leadership, and…

Education
12
Cortland County Chamber of Commerce Inc

To attract and promote business in cortland county through social events, seminars, and other networking actvities

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cortland Memorial Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alumni Fund Association of Yale University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,700 · OtherCORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCORTLAND COUNTY UNITED WAY: $18,550 · OtherCORTLAND COUNTY UNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient: $17,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $10,000 · OtherCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INCCNY LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,990 · OtherHOMEVILLE MUSEUM INC: $7,214 · Other+43 more: $50,125 · Other+43 moreCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC: $58,707 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF …+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureLIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC: $15,050 · Environment+1 more: $25 · EnvironmentCORTLAND REGIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsCORTLAND FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $150 · Recreation & SportsCORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $5,471 · Human ServicesFRANZISKA RACKER CENTERS INC: $1,700 · Human ServicesFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $500 · Human ServicesTruxton Academy Charter School: $3,035 · EducationPHILLIPS FREE LIBRARY: $2,400 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $550 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,300 · HealthSEVEN VALLEYS HEALTH COALITION INC: $1,000 · HealthCORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Health
Other$185,429Arts & Culture$60,207Environment$15,075Recreation & Sports$12,650Human Services$7,671Education$6,085Health$3,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC: $58,707 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,700 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC: $15,050 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCORTLAND REGIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL INC: $12,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $5,471 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTruxton Academy Charter School: $3,035 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPHILLIPS FREE LIBRARY: $2,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCORTLAND SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANZISKA RACKER CENTERS INC: $1,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJM MURRAY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORTLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB INC: $800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL COUNCIL OF CORTLAND COUNTY: $400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLSTART: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARCHMONT SCHOOLS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT MOVEMENT INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND REGIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Truxton Academy Charter School ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANZISKA RACKER CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JM MURRAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN VALLEYS HEALTH COALITION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

JM McDonald Foundation IncDE29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Cortland Community Foundation · Ralph R Wilkins Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Siegle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Siegle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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