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Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation at a glance

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Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$259k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$327kPublic Safety & Disaster$285kArts & Culture$171kReligion$120kFood & Nutrition$107kCommunity Improvement$76kHuman Services$52kYouth Development$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $182k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%TIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION: $13k → 11%Play Yard Concepts: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 31 repeat orgs$464k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$912k
$398k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

35%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureHuman 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

  • EC
    ELMIRA COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +18%
  • TO
    TIOGA OPPORTUNITIES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +16%
  • RC
    Resource Center of Candor Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +89% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +209%
  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY SOIL & WATER
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • ME
    Maine Emergency Squad Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue -13%
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.

1
Varna Volunteer Fire Company

The varna volunteer fire co inc's mission is to provide fire, rescue and emergency response to the varna , ny and surrounding community.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department

Department provides fire fighting fire prevention and rescue services to the saranac lake, ny area

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3
Tioga Fire Company No 1

Fire protection services to residents of tioga center, ny and the surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
—
5
Stony Brook Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the Stony Brook fire district 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Schuyler County Community Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department serving the Crystal Beach area of Canandaigua, NY

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Snyder Fire Department Inc

Provide fire, rescue emergency medical services.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Gowanda Volunteer Fire Department

To provide volunteer fire protection to the town of Gowanda, NY

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Tioga Fire Department

None

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Tivoli Fire Co Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Keene Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting company serving Keene, New York primarily but available for multi community calls.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tioga County Open Door Mission of Owego Ny Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 77 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANDOR EMERGENCY SERVICES: $108,920 · OtherCANDOR EMERGENCY SERVICESCANDOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65,730 · OtherCANDOR HISTORICAL SOCIETYBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTIOGA COUNTY SOIL & WATER: $40,000 · OtherCORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $32,000 · Other+58 more: $588,879 · Other+58 moreELMIRA COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationELMIRA COLL…Campville Fire Department Inc: $20,165 · EducationCampville F…FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $15,000 · EducationFOUNDATION …OWEGO EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $66,801 · HealthEMPIRE STATE SPECIAL NEEDS EXPERIEN: $16,000 · HealthMaine Emergency Squad Inc: $30,815 · Public Safety & DisasterJE HALLETT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1 INC: $21,365 · Public Safety & DisasterOWEGO HOSE TEAMS: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsNewark Valley Historical Society: $28,625 · Arts & CultureTIOGA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC TIOGA ARTS COUNCIL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTIOGA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$955,529Education$140,165Health$82,801Public Safety & Disaster$73,180Recreation & Sports$45,000Arts & Culture$43,625Housing & Shelter$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOWEGO EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $66,801 over 3y, 78% of budgetTIOGA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Emergency Squad Inc: $30,815 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetResource Center of Candor Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetNewark Valley Historical Society: $28,625 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCoburn Free Library: $23,666 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetJE HALLETT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1 INC: $21,365 over 2y, 37% of budgetCampville Fire Department Inc: $20,165 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetOWEGO HOSE TEAMS: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTioga County Rural Ministry Inc: $19,605 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSTRAY HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIOGA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC TIOGA ARTS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION OF OWEGO NY INC: $13,450 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBerkshire Free Library: $6,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAPALACHIN LIONS FOUNDATION INC: $3,151 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetACCORD CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOwego Marketplace Inc: $1,700 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSpencer Fire Company: $1,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budget
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.

  • 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 Play Yard Concepts Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIOGA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC TIOGA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds TIOGA COUNTY OPEN DOOR MISSION OF OWEGO NY INC ↗

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.

Floyd Hooker Foundati…Tioga Downs Regional …The Tsb Foundation IncFannie C Hyde Testame…The Community Foundat…Tioga County Senior C…Ibm International Fou…Les Wagner Foundation…America's CharitiesAmazonsmile Foundation
Floyd Hooker FoundationAK39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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