New York · Nonprofit
FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT
FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,966 to it, the largest being PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($370,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $879k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment does
Mission
The Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment ("community endowment") was organized to raise funds from private and public sources for area philanthropic purposes and to allocate and distribute funds to charitable organizations that qualify as exempt under the law, section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future united states internal revenue law), or individuals who qualify as suitable beneficiaries under the law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Donations were made to local charitable organizations according to the contributors or as the trustees decide.
$4,708,149 spentof which $4,708,149 as grants$1,349,421 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,708,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $22M (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
72% of FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $97k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 29% · 2021 73% · 2022 38% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
71% of FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT?
- FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,966 to it, the largest being PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($370,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $878,966 in grants to FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT?
- PETER A AND MARION W SCHWARTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing