· Public charity
United Way of Greater Oswego County
Coordinates county wide fund raising campaign to support service programs to advance the common good by building partnerships that will provide rsources to improve lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $190,443 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $197,293 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $49,773 |
| OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES | $45,850 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF OSWEGO | $20,000 |
| FARNHAM FAMILY SERVICES | $13,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,850 |
| YMCA | $10,320 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $9,850 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER OF OSWEGO | $6,800 |
| AURORA OF CNY | $6,250 |
| ARC OF OSWEGO COUNTY | $5,450 |
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 (FY17–24, $766k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OCOSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +34%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SYRACUSE NY2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +31%
- FIFARNHAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +265%
Funded once
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MID-NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +104%
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.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
To provide a variety of supports and services, both site-based and in the community, for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities who reside in otsego county. these services include residential, employment, day…
Opportunities for otsego, as a community action agency, mobilizes resources and creates solutions to unlock opportunities for low income individuals and families in the counties of otsego and chenango, new york. opportunities for otsego's…
Arc of onondaga supports people with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities in leading meaningful lives in their community.
Legal services of central new york (lscny) is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty.
Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…
Our mission is to help individuals achieve their highest level of capability and increase opportunities for their future success. we are committed to person-centered, family focused services.
In 1984, saratoga bridges opened the first accessible community-based home in the county for people with developmental disabilities. subsequently, our residential program has grown tremendously. our goal is to teach residents to become…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Cany provides independent oversight of prisons in new york to promote transparency and accountability; safeguard the human and civil rights of incarcerated people; identify and provoke a response to harmful practices and policies;…
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
To provide prevention education, intervention, and referral services that reduce the impact of substance misuse and support healthy decision-making across all stages of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny and the most unlike its peers is The Research Foundation for the State University of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SYRACUSE NY ↗
- Who funds FARNHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF OSWEGO INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC OSWEGO COUNTY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OSWEGO INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FULTON NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTY OF OSWEGO COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MID-NEW YORK 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · 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 United Way of Greater Oswego County 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.