How much does Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc give?

Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc reported 46 itemized grants totaling $2,321,159, out of $2,780,812 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (6%).

Who are Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Cornell University ($4.0M), United Way of Tompkins County Inc ($680k), Thomas Jefferson University ($600k).

Does Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, Park Foundation Inc, Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County.

Where is Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc based?

Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc is based in NY.

Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc

Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc

To receive and distribute contributions and bequests through the structure of a community trust.

$2.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$7.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$787kReligion$587kFood & Nutrition$485kScience & Tech$376kHealth$323kInternational$297kOther$0

02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 46 grants below total $2,321,159, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,780,812 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $459,653 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $60k
$10k–50k32 grants · $486k
$50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$250k+2 grants · $1.6M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$1,000,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY	$600,000
UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY	$75,000
THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL	$50,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$50,000
ITHACA CHILDREN'S GARDEN	$40,000
FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER	$38,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	$25,000
ITHACA PUBLIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC	$25,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$21,000
FINGER LAKES REUSE	$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY	$17,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$17,000
1890 HOUSE MUSEUM	$15,000

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 (FY18–23, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.6M · 67 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.6M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+10%

Still filing today

73%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

Cornell University
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +49%
PR
PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION
6× · 2018–2023 · $192k · revenue +41%
CR
CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $187k · revenue +14%

Funded once

TJ
Thomas Jefferson University
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
PU
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +9%
TO
TOWN OF ITHACA
one grant, 2019 · $180k

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.

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

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

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

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

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

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

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice 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 Orthopedic 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

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

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Transformative Action; the most unlike its peers is Children's Reading Connection. 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

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 162 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)

95/96

Grantees still filing

61/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$5,901,383Other$4,335,150Philanthropy$1,201,584Arts & Culture$603,000Community Improvement$370,236Health$312,150International$273,000

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.

Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY84.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Triad Foundation Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Norathco Foundation · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · Yhb Charitable Endowment Inc

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 Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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