· Private foundation
Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCERSBURG ACADEMY | $18,300 |
| Golden Foundation | $9,100 |
| CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSP | $7,500 |
| Chenango Valley Home | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen | $4,000 |
| CHENANGO BLUES ASSOC | $4,000 |
| Various | $3,900 |
| Wilton Library Assocation | $3,750 |
| Northeast Classic Car Museum | $3,500 |
| ST BARTHOLOMEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURC | $3,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL | $3,250 |
| HOSPICE CHENANGO COUNTY | $3,100 |
| Norwich Catholic Community Soup Kit | $3,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD CLOSET | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $12k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +59%
- HOHOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +21%
- CCCOLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NINYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
- NBNORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -42%
- CGCHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Greater Norwich Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 108 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 CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CHENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NORWICH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Northeast Classic Car Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF ALBANY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Water for South Sudan 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: The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · The Greater Norwich Foundation · The R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · The Everett & Pearl Gilmour Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Weinman Family Foundation · The Higley Foundation Inc · The Nycm 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 Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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