· Private foundation
Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For South Central New York Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $55k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tioga County Rural Ministry | $12,000 |
| Tioga County Open Door Mission | $8,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $8,000 |
| Tioga Opportunities Dept of Comm | $7,500 |
| Newark Valley United Church of Christ | $5,000 |
| Mercy House | $2,500 |
| Helping Hands Food Pantry | $2,000 |
| McKendree Open Hearts Dinner | $2,000 |
| Candor Emergency Squad | $1,500 |
| Sassy's Sidekicks & Rescue | $1,000 |
| Spencer VanEtten Com Food Cupboard | $1,000 |
| Coburn Free Library | $500 |
| Tappan Spaulding Library | $500 |
| Berkshire Free Library | $500 |
| Waverly Free Library | $500 |
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, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTioga County Rural Ministry Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +135%
- TCTIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION OF OWEGO NY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +17%
- CFCoburn Free Library8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- TCTioga County Foundations Coalition Emergency Fund2× · 2020–2021 · $5k
- ISInspire S-VE Incgraduated2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +30%
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.
To maintain a circulating library and reading room which are free for public use to residents of the surrounding area.
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Free public library serving the deruyter, ny community
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Provide library services for the Town of Amenia
Provide free public access to the library for residents of the Tully NY School District.
To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs
Provide library services to Saxton, PA & the surrounding area.
The purpose of the Library is to provide literary/computer resources & Services for Lewis County Residents and surrounding Communities for educational purposes
Library Services
Public library, museum and local history archives
Public library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rural Health Network of Scny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sassys Sidekicks and Rescue 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 48 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Tioga County Rural Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION OF OWEGO NY INC ↗
- Who funds Coburn Free Library ↗
- Who funds CANDOR EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Community Care Network of Nichols ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Resource Center of Candor Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Free Library ↗
- Who funds Inspire S-VE Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds Apalachin Library Association ↗
- Who funds Candor Free Library ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE RURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF SCNY INC ↗
- Who funds SASSYS SIDEKICKS AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds APALACHIN LIONS FOUNDATION 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: Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Floyd Hooker Foundation · Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation · Finger Lakes Library System · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation 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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