· Private foundation
UpMobility Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Cnty | $1,166,263 |
| Little Falls City School District | $1,102,746 |
| Herkimer County Children's Center | $450,000 |
| Right to Start | $400,000 |
| Unite America Institute | $250,000 |
| Civics Unplugged Inc | $250,000 |
| Blacque Acres | $216,000 |
| Upstate Venture Connect | $200,000 |
| Little Falls Youth & Family Center | $185,612 |
| The Resolution Project | $175,000 |
| Herkimer Next Inc | $136,500 |
| UATX University of Austin | $134,500 |
| Water Mission | $117,000 |
| Students for Liberty | $102,500 |
| Empire Center for Public Policy | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- RTRIGHT TO START2× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +39%
- UVUpstate Venture Connect Corporation4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +105% · 53% of their budget
- CUCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC3× · 2022–2024 · $365k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER & ONEIDA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $766k
- LFLITTLE FALLS FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2021 · $504k
- FOFRIENDS OF BASSET HEALTHCARE NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $500k
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 transform our region by stimulating the growth and creation of dynamic companies in order to provide a superior standard of living for residents.
Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
Committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all new yorkers. founded in 1991, fpi is committed to creating a strong economy in which prosperity is shared by all new yorkers.
Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets. open plans uses grassroots advocacy and policy change to inspire structural reforms and cultural shifts. we promote a people-first street culture that…
Workforce development institute ("wdi") is a statewide organization that works for all new yorkers to succeed in the workforce while earning family sustaining wages. through programs in education and training, economic development, and…
To educate the public on a range of crucial issues, advocate for economic policies that make life more affordable for hardworking New Yorkers, and encourage federal elected officials to oppose policies that harm New Yorkers.
To participate in the development of a movement of independent voters, in partnership with americans of all persuasions, to reform america's political process, create nonpartisan coalitions and develop a broad and inclusive consensus for…
Fuzehub works to better connect new york's small and mid-sized manufacturing companies to the resources, programs and expertise they need for technology commercialization, innovative solutions and business growth.
New york focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the empire state.(continued on scheduleo)launched in october of 2020, new york focus aims to help make government more transparent by publishing…
To promote and educate the next generation of u.s. leaders about international relations and policies, fostering the exchange of ideas and viewpoints between talented young american professionals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Asian American Dream Inc. 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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 117 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 RIGHT TO START ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds Upstate Venture Connect Corporation ↗
- Who funds CIVICS UNPLUGGED INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HERKIMER NEXT INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds GOVERNMENT JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans for All Voters ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON TECH INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts 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 of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Burrows Foundation · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Rob Esche Save of the Day Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mohawk Valley Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr 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 UpMobility Foundation Inc 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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