· Private foundation
Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc
THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDS AND GRANTS TO TAX EXEMPT 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSING ON HEALTH CARE, RELIGIOUS, ATHLETIC, EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTHERN TIER OF NEW YORK STATE.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of TIOGA DOWNS REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k20 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k77 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD DEPOT PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC | $50,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $50,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC | $35,000 |
| HOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON INC | $25,000 |
| SPEEDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC | $25,000 |
| SAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANFORMATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE SOUTHERN TIERLLC | $25,000 |
| ITHACA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| THE GUTHRIE CLINIC VETERAN SUPPORT | $25,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS - SOUTHERN TIER CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| VESTAL VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC | $20,000 |
| EMPIRE STATE SPECIAL NEEDS EXPERIENCE | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $712k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 72% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $869k 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
- EOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE3× · 2020–2023 · $140k · revenue +30%
- SHSAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +6% · 26% of their budget
- ANA NEW HOPE CENTER INC3× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- OSOWEGO SERVICEMENS MEMORIAL HOME INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +17%
- FOFRIENDS OF KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · 25% of their budget
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS INCone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue +15%
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.
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
Cooperative library system
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
To improve the quality of life for all residents of its primary service areas by focusing on meeting the needs of the low-income and disadvantaged population, and to promote the personal and family growth of its constituents as they move…
Volunteer ambulance service
To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs
The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…
The organization provides behavioral health / social support services to residents in clinton, franklin, essex, warren and washington counties in new york state.
To advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in Family Court by recruiting and training community volunteers.
The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home of Wyoming Conference and the most unlike its peers is The Rockwell Museum. 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 33 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 165 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE ↗
- Who funds SAYRE HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds A NEW HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STAND WITH ME ASSISTANCE DOG TEAM TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON ↗
- Who funds CAMP AHWAGA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE SPECIAL NEEDS EXPERIEN ↗
- Who funds OWEGO SERVICEMENS MEMORIAL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC BROOME-CHENANGO- TIOGA COUNTIES CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Broome County Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TWIN TIERS ↗
- Who funds SECURE REHABILITATION AND VOCATIONAL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Coburn Free Library ↗
- Who funds KALIS KLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Discovery Center of the So Tier Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR THE COUNTIES OF BRADFORDSULLIVANSUSQUEHANNATIOGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD COUNTY REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BROOME COUNTY PUBLIC LIBR ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE GUTHRIE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST BRADFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNING COUNCIL FOR ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Speedsville Volunteer Fire Department 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 Tsb Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Floyd Hooker Foundation · George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Broome County Inc · Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation · United Way of Bradford County · Dr G Clifford & Florence B Decker Foundation Inc · Conrad & Virginia Klee Foundation Inc · The Triangle Fund · Raymond 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 Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc 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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