How much does The William G Pomeroy Foundation give?

The William G Pomeroy Foundation reported 203 grants totaling $4,211,109 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 130 and 260 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The William G Pomeroy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Health (35%), Arts & Culture (21%).

Who are The William G Pomeroy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Crouse Health Foundation Inc ($3.4M), Nmdp Foundation ($1.7M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($967k).

Does The William G Pomeroy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The William G Pomeroy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The William G Pomeroy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Preservation League of New York State, Greater Hudson Heritage Network, New York Council for the Humanities.

Where is The William G Pomeroy Foundation based?

The William G Pomeroy Foundation is based in NY.

The William G Pomeroy Foundation

The William G Pomeroy Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The William G Pomeroy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

203

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$900k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$9.1MHealth$8.7MArts & Culture$5.2MYouth Development$420kHuman Services$315kPublic Benefit$164kEducation$143kRecreation & Sports$127kOther$0

02FY2024 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k174 grants · $429k
$10k–50k17 grants · $354k
$50k–250k6 grants · $451k
$250k+6 grants · $3.0M

$1,950

Median grant

States reached

$115M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$900,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE	$727,652
GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY	$400,000
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION	$400,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$300,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$250,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CENTRAL NEW YORK CHAPTER	$100,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY	$100,000
MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK	$76,080
THE LAFAYETTE TRAIL INC	$66,300
COLUMBIA-MID HUDSON VALLEY SAR CHAPTER	$58,500
THE SALVATION ARMY	$50,000
NEW YORK GENEOLOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY	$46,940
WCNY	$39,000
NSDAR - TREASURER GENERAL	$31,200

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of The William G Pomeroy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The William G Pomeroy Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 271 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

271 repeat relationships: 93 still active in FY2024, 178 since wound down; 107 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

271

766

Total granted

$13M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+21%

Still filing today

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $696k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

NF
NMDP FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +92%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
3× · 2017–2024 · $967k · revenue +162%
GO
GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue +54%

Funded once

AD
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
TI
THE ICLA DA SILVA FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -72%
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%

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.

Albion Historical Society

To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion

Arts & Culture

Sharon Historical Society-Sharon Springs New York Inc

The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…

Arts & Culture

Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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Johnstown Historical Society

—

Salem Historical Society

—

Bureau County Historical Society

—

Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and T

Educate the community on the history of newburgh bay and the highlands

Arts & Culture

Winchester Historical Society

—

Fort Ann Historical Society

Education

Croatoan Archaeological Society

curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history

Arts & Culture

Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture

North Shore Historical Museum Inc

Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneida County Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Be Foundation. 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

423 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. 423 of the 1,149 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

126

Early backer (in before they grew)

414/423

Grantees still filing

266/423

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$10,081,560Health$6,476,867Other$2,882,014Arts & Culture$2,545,521Community Improvement$742,652Education$286,330Human Services$124,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

Preservation League of New York StateNY76.1× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Preservation League of New York State · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · New York Council for the Humanities · Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Parks & Trails New York Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation

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 William G Pomeroy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William G Pomeroy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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