· Public charity
Upstate Theater Coalition for a Fairgame Inc
UPSTATE THEATER COALITION FOR A FAIRGAME INC.'s purpose is to receive legislatively mandated casino generated contributions and pay net proceeds of such contributions over to organizations that are described in section 170(c) of the internal revenue code and exempt from taxation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $997,063 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,164,813 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,750 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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $459k
- $250k+1 grant · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $299,141 |
| ARTS CENTER & THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY | $135,106 |
| BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE | $132,359 |
| ROCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE INC | $118,991 |
| SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC | $72,516 |
| CLEMENS CENTER OF ELMIRA | $43,440 |
| SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY CENTER | $37,159 |
| STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA INC | $36,735 |
| FORUM THEATRE OF BINGHAMTON | $32,021 |
| PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $30,865 |
| TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORP | $30,865 |
| TIMES UNION CENTER | $27,865 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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.
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
- BWBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +103%
- RBROCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $654k · revenue +62%
- ACARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $571k · revenue +37%
Funded once
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.
Productions
To offer a broad range of high-quality entertainment that nurtures cultural experience, participation and community engagement among residents and visitors of all ages, and enhances the economic vitality of the region.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
To engage and inspire by making arts education and entertainment accessible to our rural communities.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
To foster, promote and nurture the natural talents of those citizens interested in play production, stagecraft and arts management; to stimulate appreciation and participation in suporting high quality theatrical prodcutions for the…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
The center for the arts at ithaca, inc., d/b/a the hangar theatre, is committed to providing exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the finger lakes…
Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers
The marcus center for the performing arts acts as an energizing force that connects our community to the world through collaboration, innovation, social engagement and the transformative power of live performing arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS INC CLEMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Upstate Theater Coalition for a Fairgame 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.
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.