· Private foundation
Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANDOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $27,470 |
| CANDOR EMERGENCY SERVICES | $22,600 |
| COBURN FREE LIBRARY | $18,666 |
| CANDOR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $16,157 |
| EMPIRE STATE SPECIAL NEED EXPERIENCE | $16,000 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NEWARK VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SPENCER | $12,500 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | $10,000 |
| JE HALLETT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1 | $9,525 |
| SPENCER FEDERATED CHURCH | $8,000 |
| BARTON COMMUNITY CLUB | $7,370 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OWEGO | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% 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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- ECELMIRA COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +18%
- TOTIOGA OPPORTUNITIES INC2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +16%
- RCResource Center of Candor Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +89% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- TCTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +209%
- TCTIOGA COUNTY SOIL & WATERone grant, 2022 · $40k
- MEMaine Emergency Squad Incone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue -13%
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.
The varna volunteer fire co inc's mission is to provide fire, rescue and emergency response to the varna , ny and surrounding community.
Department provides fire fighting fire prevention and rescue services to the saranac lake, ny area
Fire protection services to residents of tioga center, ny and the surrounding areas.
Provide fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the Stony Brook fire district 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Volunteer Fire Department serving the Crystal Beach area of Canandaigua, NY
Provide fire, rescue emergency medical services.
To provide volunteer fire protection to the town of Gowanda, NY
None
Respond to fire and other emergency service requests. provide fire and emergency service to the village of tivoli and surrounding area within the towns of red hook and germantown.
Volunteer firefighting company serving Keene, New York primarily but available for multi community calls.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tioga County Open Door Mission of Owego Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newark Valley Historical Society. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 77 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 ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OWEGO EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TIOGA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Emergency Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds Resource Center of Candor Inc ↗
- Who funds Newark Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Coburn Free Library ↗
- Who funds JE HALLETT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1 INC ↗
- Who funds Campville Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds OWEGO HOSE TEAMS ↗
- Who funds Tioga County Rural Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAY HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE SPECIAL NEEDS EXPERIEN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC TIOGA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Play Yard Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION OF OWEGO NY 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: Floyd Hooker Foundation · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Fannie C Hyde Testamentary Trust 1020025507 · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Les Wagner Foundation Inc · America's Charities · 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 Truman Mildred Faulkner 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.