FundersNew York

Argersinger Charitable Trust

Norwich, NY · EIN 81-6421373. Reported 31 grants totalling $223,261 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$6,000median grant
$223,261granted, 2021-2024
23organizations funded
25%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,177,103assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Argersinger Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $6,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,340 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $26,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Fulton County Historical SocietyGloversville, NY$26,500112022
Gloversville Theatre CorporationGloversville, NY$23,000222023
St John's Episcopal ChurchOneida, NY$23,000332023
Johnstown Little League IncJohnstown, NY$15,869332024
Sacandaga Bible ConferenceBroadalbin, NY$12,000112024
Caroga Historical AssociationCaroga Lake, NY$11,000112022
Friends of Johnson HallJohnstown, NY$10,680112024
Gloversville Housing & Neighborhood Improvement CommitteeGloversville, NY$10,000112023
Mountain Valley HospiceGloversville, NY$10,000222023
Nathan Littauer Foundation Inc Attn Mr Geoffrey PeckGloversville, NY$10,000112021
United Way of Fulton County IncGloversville, NY$10,000222022
Kingsboro Assembly of GodGloversville, NY$9,280112021
Johnstown Little League Inc Attn Chris Tallon PresidentJohnstown, NY$9,000112021
Nathan Littauer Foundation Inc Attn Mr Geoff PeckGloversville, NY$9,000112024
The Family Counseling Center of Fulton County IncGloversville, NY$6,000112021
Caroga Arts Collective IncCaroga Lake, NY$5,332112023
Memorial Hall Cultural & Arts Center IncGloversville, NY$5,000112023
Johnstown Historical SocietyJohnstown, NY$4,514112024
Gloversville Public LibraryGloversville, NY$4,340112024
The Salvation Army of GloversvilleGloversville, NY$3,600222024
Willing Helpers Home for Women Inc Kathleen Rockwell TreasurerJohnstown, NY$2,646112021
Friends of the Forgotten Cat Rescue IncJohnstown, NY$2,000112024
Gloversville Parade CommitteeGloversville, NY$500112022

6 of 23 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 25%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$53,926$7,500
20228$61,500$5,000
20237$54,332$8,000
20248$53,503$6,441

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Gloversville, NY
$127K
Johnstown, NY
$45K
Oneida, NY
$23K
Caroga Lake, NY
$16K
Broadalbin, NY
$12K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Argersinger Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: C/O Nbt Bank Na 52 S Broad St, Norwich, NY, 13815. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 81-6421373 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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