· Public charity
United Way of the Greater Capital Region
To improve peoples' lives through the investment of community resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $558,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,602,541 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,044,541 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANCODE COMMUNITIES | $35,000 |
| SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER | $35,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF NENY | $35,000 |
| CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS | $35,000 |
| CONNECT CENTER FOR YOUTH | $35,000 |
| SEAT CENTER | $35,000 |
| YOUNG FUTURES COMPANY | $18,000 |
| CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| REFUGEE IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SVCS OF EMMAUS | $15,000 |
| TECH VALLEY CENTER OF GRAVITY | $15,000 |
| THE BABY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC | $15,000 |
| FRANK CHAPMAN MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| SOUTH END CHILDREN'S CAFE | $15,000 |
| IN OUR OWN VOICES INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
133 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 10 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- MAMECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SRVCS CTR INC7× · 2017–2023 · $667k · revenue +117%
- TATRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $665k · revenue +105%
- UHUNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $468k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2017 · $201k · revenue -12%
- CCCONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $73k · revenue +61%
- FFFREE FOOD FRIDGE ALBANYone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
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…
Children's services
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Cluster community services assists residents in westchester and rockland counties to build a better future for themselves and their communities through services such as: mental health housing, eviction and homelessness prevention,…
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
The specific mission of the organization is to coordinate resources to inspire and empower people to acheive their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
182 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. 182 of the 199 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 MECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SRVCS CTR INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITIES OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALBANY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINOX INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE RIVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSIDE UP INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WATERVLIET CIVIC CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY CAN CODE 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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Schenectady Foundation · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · Capital Communications Cares Foundation · Carl E Touhey Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc
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 the Greater Capital Region 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.
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.