· Private foundation
The Triangle Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k13 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC | $35,360 |
| HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH INC | $32,825 |
| HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOUCE CENTER | $19,500 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $17,790 |
| CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ADDISON YOUTH CENTER INC | $15,600 |
| YWCA OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS | $15,500 |
| FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC | $15,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY CORNING | $15,300 |
| Bradford Central School District | $13,800 |
| NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER | $13,532 |
| TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER AND MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| ROCKWELL MUSEUM OF ART | $12,000 |
| CORNING PRIDE | $11,500 |
| Neighborhood Transformation Center | $11,000 |
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, $622k) 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- PAPRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $221k · revenue +73%
- FSFamily Service Society Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +20%
- HFHORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ELMIRA CORNING AREAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- WGWATKINS GLEN SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
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…
To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
Cchs is a comprehensive family and child development program committed to providing quality services that support and nurture the families we serve. our work connects through our community as we prepare our families and children for a…
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
Committed to providing families with the highest standard of child-inspired, professionally-nurtured care and opportunities for learning.
To provide quality child care services for suny cobleskill employees and the public at large.
Forum for community concerns
Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.
Licensed daycare faciltiy. serving suny oneonta employees, students and the surrounding communities.
To provide quality day care on a year round basis for children of working families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services of Chemung County Inc and the most unlike its peers is True Christianity 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 36 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ADDISON YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS ↗
- Who funds TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Science and Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF CHEMUNG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE CHRISTIANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNING PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAREFIRST NY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAREER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL IN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER 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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc · Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc · Meadows Charitable Trust · ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Rotary Club of Corning NY · Meier Family 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 Triangle Fund 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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