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Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Ulster Savings Charitable 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.

$331k
Granted FY2025still arriving
103
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$305kHuman Services$202kArts & Culture$196kHealth$195kHousing & Shelter$146kFood & Nutrition$102kYouth Development$90kCommunity Improvement$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k99 grants · $274k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERFI$27,500
SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH$10,000
PEOPLES PLACE$10,000
YWCA OF ULSTER COUNTY$10,000
ULSTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$8,000
ULSTER LITERACY ASSOCIATION$7,000
THE ASHOKAN CENTER$7,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER HUDSON VALLEY$5,000
HUDSON VALLEY CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
THE WELL$5,000
THE ARC MIDHUDSON$5,000
MY KINGSTON KIDS$5,000
HUDSON VALLEY MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE CENTER$5,000
FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK$5,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%ANGELS OF LIGHT: $2k → 9%DIAPER BANK OF ORANGE ULSTER & SULLIVAN: $1k → 16%GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 9%GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 9%GREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR ABILITIES FIRST INC: $5k → 9%ASTOR SERVICE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 9%ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $3k → 9%DUTCHESS OUTREACH: $3k → 9%YWCA ULSTER COUNTY: $10k → 16%GATEWAY COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES INC: $8k → 16%THE RESOURCE CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE LIVING: $6k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 9%THE LOVE QUEST FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%MY KINGSTON KIDS: $5k → 16%THE LOVE QUEST FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%ULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $5k → 16%THE ARC MIDHUDSON: $5k → 16%YMCA OF KINGSTON & ULSTER COUNTY: $3k → 16%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK INC: $3k → 16%RESOURCE CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE LIVING: $3k → 16%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK INC: $2k → 16%HV LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 16%THE ARC MID-HUDSON: $2k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ULSTER COUNTY: $2k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ULSTER COUNTY: $2k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ULSTER COUNTY: $1k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 94 repeat orgs$981k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
159

Total granted

$1.1M
$831k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

69%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER HUDSON VALLEY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • BH
    BENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $27k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $343k
  • VB
    Vassar Brothers Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -73%
  • RF
    REQIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEATERN NY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation

Economic development and promotion of the hudson valley region in new york.

Community Improvement
2
Hudson River Museum of Westchester

Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.

Arts & Culture
3
Historic Hudson Valley

The organization's mission is to celebrate the history, architecture, landscape and material culture of the hudson valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.

Arts & Culture
4
Catskill Center for Conservation & Development Inc

The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…

Environment
5
Hudson Valley Agri-Business Development Corp

Its purposes include agribusiness technical assistance and support, conservation of agricultural resources, carrying on scientific research for the purpose of aiding the hudson valley by attracting agricultural producers, related…

Community Improvement
6
Hudson Valley Technology Development Center Inc
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7
Upstate Films Ltd

Upstate films connects the hudson valley with transformative cinematic experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Upper Hudson Northern Catskill Natural Resource Trust Inc

To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.

Environment
9
Washingtonville Housing Alliance

To preserve and enhance the quality of life in the village of mamaroneck and the surrounding area. wha constructs new housing and improves existing housing for low and moderate income residents and undertakes other supportive activities…

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10
Wraparound Services of the Hudson Valley Inc

Wraparound services of the hudson valley partners with communities throughout the mid-hudson valley to empower people with disabilities to achieve their highest potential by providing innovative community, educational and residential…

Health
11
Greater Hudson Heritage Network

To provide services and assistance to historical agencies and museums.

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12
Wallkill Valley Land Trust

To promote the preservation, protection, and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding, and management of fee simple title conservation easements.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Ulster County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kiwanis Club of Newburgh Foundation Inc. 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

148 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. 148 of the 306 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/148
Grantees still filing
101/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $342,937 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVERFI INC: $55,300 · OtherEVERFI (LITERACY PROGRAM): $55,000 · Other+137 more: $957,554 · Other+137 moreSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH: $50,000 · EducationSAN MIGUE…ULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · EducationULSTER CO…Ulster Literacy Association Inc: $20,000 · EducationUlster Li…WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL: $14,500 · EducationWOODSTOCK…ANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM: $13,040 · EducationANDERSON …LITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC: $12,500 · EducationLITERACY …Hudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc: $7,500 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $7,000 · Education+5 more: $16,000 · Education+5 moreBARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $16,600 · Arts & CultureHUGUENOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW PALTZ NY: $16,000 · Arts & CultureHARAMBEE KINGSTON NY: $13,000 · Arts & CultureShandaken Theatrical Society Inc: $8,400 · Arts & CultureDENIZEN THEATRE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART INC: $7,100 · Arts & CultureTHE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureBENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · HealthFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $20,000 · HealthVassar Brothers Hospital Foundation: $15,000 · HealthHealthAlliance Foundation Inc: $13,600 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $8,500 · HealthBREAST CANCER OPTIONS INC: $6,000 · HealthNEW PALTZ RESCUE SQUAD INC: $5,700 · HealthELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ULSTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE LIVING INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesGATEWAY COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES INC D/B/A GATEWAY HUDSON VALLEY: $8,000 · Human ServicesGREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $7,800 · Human ServicesTHE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC ULSTER GREENE PUTNAM COUNTY CHAPTERS: $7,000 · Human ServicesASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $6,000 · Human ServicesDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR ABILITIES FIRST NEW YORK: $5,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ULSTER CO: $5,000 · Human ServicesULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMYKINGSTONKIDS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $4,500 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentASHOKAN CENTER INC: $16,500 · EnvironmentKingston Land Trust Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson Inc: $2,500 · EnvironmentSTOCKADE WORKS INC: $13,500 · EmploymentUNSHATTERED INC: $12,000 · EmploymentWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $7,500 · EmploymentMID HUDSON WORKSHOP FOR THE DISABLED INC: $5,000 · EmploymentABILITIES FIRST INC: $5,000 · Employment
Other$1,410,791Education$166,040Arts & Culture$106,100Health$105,800Human Services$90,500Environment$53,000Employment$43,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH: $50,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HUDSON VALLEY INC: $30,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIP VAN WINKLE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUlster Literacy Association Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBURGH ARMORY UNITY CENTER INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetULSTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON: $18,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $16,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetASHOKAN CENTER INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $16,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUGUENOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW PALTZ NY: $16,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVassar Brothers Hospital Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL: $14,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF KINGSTON: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHealthAlliance Foundation Inc: $13,600 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSTOCKADE WORKS INC: $13,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetREAD WRITE PROGRAM: $13,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM: $13,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARAMBEE KINGSTON NY: $13,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNSHATTERED INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $10,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ULSTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRUPCO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING INNOVATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ULSTER COUNTY INC: $9,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE LIVING INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetShandaken Theatrical Society Inc: $8,400 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY INDUSTRIES INC D/B/A GATEWAY HUDSON VALLEY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN ULSTER COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREYSTONE PROGRAMS INC: $7,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Spectrum Services: $7,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTOR ME OF ULSTER COUNTY: $7,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENIZEN THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART INC: $7,100 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

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 Foundations…The Dyson FoundationNovo FoundationBank of Greene County…Kvistad FoundationHudson Valley Foundat…United Way of the Dut…Community Foundation …JM McDonald Foundatio…United Way of Ulster …Arts Mid-Hudson IncThe Ascienzo Family F…
Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley IncNY155× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Novo Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Kvistad Foundation · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of Ulster County Inc · Arts Mid-Hudson Inc · The Ascienzo Family 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 Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    58report 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 306 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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