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Saint Agatha Foundation

Jenkintown, PA · EIN 26-0012966. Reported 58 grants totalling $8,480,278 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$32,500median reported grant
$8,480,278granted, 2020-2024
56%of grantees funded again the next year
65%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Saint Agatha Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a private grantmaking foundation (NTEE T20).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 65% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $32,500. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $55,150; the smallest was $5,290 and the largest $1,445,725. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cancerconnects IncEast Syracuse, NY$5,477,206552024
Crouse Health Foundation IncSyracuse, NY$609,073112022
Young Mens Christian Association of Central New York IncSyracuse, NY$600,000222023
Mary Imogene Bassett HospitalCooperstown, NY$300,000552024
Rome Memorial Hospital IncRome, NY$150,000332024
Oswego Health IncOswego, NY$115,860332024
St Josephs Hospital Health CenterTroy, NY$108,000112023
The Samaritan Medical Center Foundation of Northern New York inWatertown, NY$100,000222022
Francis House IncSyracuse, NY$90,000222022
Young Mens Christian Association & Womans Educational & Industrial UnAuburn, NY$90,000332024
Legal Services of Central New York IncSyracuse, NY$80,000442024
The Guthrie ClinicSyre, PA$75,000112024
United Health Services Foundation IncBinghamton, NY$75,000112024
Camp Kesem NationalCovina, CA$73,000332024
Young Mens Christian Association of Watertown Ny IncWatertown, NY$71,949222024
Cortland Memorial Foundation Ind C O Cortland Memorial Hospital IncCortland, NY$70,000332023
Sarah House IncSyracuse, NY$62,000222023
Mohawk Valley Health SystemUtica, NY$55,290222024
Young Mens Christian Assoc & Womans Community Center of Rome New YorkRome, NY$55,150112024
Claxton-Hepburn Medical CenterOgdensburg, NY$50,000112022
Compassionate Care Foundation IncDexter, NY$37,500222023
Auburn Community HospitalAuburn, NY$35,000112023
Keys CorpSherrill, NY$33,750332023
Chenango Health Network IncNorwich, NY$25,000112021
Gouverneur Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fund IncGouverneur, NY$25,000112024
Musical Associates of Central New York IncSyracuse, NY$16,500332024

17 of 26 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
12 orgs
Human Services
6 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20208$1,274,163$40,000
20216$826,721$27,500
202216$2,186,041$21,500
202314$2,357,585$42,500
202414$1,835,768$38,114

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$8.3M
Pennsylvania
$75K
California
$73K

Down to the city

East Syracuse, NY
$5.5M
Syracuse, NY
$1.5M
Cooperstown, NY
$300K
Rome, NY
$205K
Watertown, NY
$172K
Auburn, NY
$125K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsCentral New York Community Foundation8 shared recipientsKinney Drugs Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsMother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $32,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Saint Agatha Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 165 Township Line Road 1200, Jenkintown, PA, 19046.

EIN 26-0012966 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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