How much does Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust give?

Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust reported 68 grants totaling $129,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (25%), Religion (11%).

Who are Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chenango Memorial Hospital Inc ($288k), The Chenango Valley Home Inc Dba the Chenango Valley Apartments ($35k), Nysarc Inc Broome-Chenango- Tioga Counties Chapter ($25k).

Does Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation, The Greater Norwich Foundation, The R C Smith Foundation Inc.

Where is Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust based?

Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust is based in NY.

Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust

Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$129k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$18k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$369kEducation$269kReligion$122kArts & Culture$105kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$37kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k67 grants · $111k
$10k–50k1 grant · $18k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MERCERSBURG ACADEMY	$18,300
Golden Foundation	$9,100
Chenango Valley Home	$7,500
CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSP	$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
ST BARTHOLOMEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURC	$3,500
Northeast Classic Car Museum	$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

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 (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 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 77 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+11%

Still filing today

48%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

CM
CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +59%
CC
COLORSCAPE CHENANGO ARTS FESTIVAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +39%
CC
CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +100%

Funded once

NI
NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
NB
NORWICH BUILDING TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -42%
CG
CHENANGO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%

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.

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Saint Anselm College

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…

Education

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health

Kendal At Ithaca Inc

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.

Human Services

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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

Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 108 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$660,600Health$295,950Arts & Culture$57,400Education$41,650Human Services$13,100International$12,600Environment$9,250

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.

The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito FoundationNY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

11report 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

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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