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Oneida Savings Bank Charitable Foundation

Oneida, NY · EIN 16-1561680. Reported 18 grants totalling $86,775 to 17 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$86,775granted, 2023-2024
17organizations funded
$2,808,748assets, 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. Oneida Savings Bank Charitable Foundation 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
11 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
2 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
Oneida Community Mansion HouseOneida, NY$30,000112024
Oneida Area Day Care CenterOneida, NY$20,000112024
On Point for College IncSyracuse, NY$10,000112024
Morrisville College FoundationMorrisville, NY$5,000112024
Oneida City School District FoundationOneida, NY$3,000222024
Oneida Improvement CommitteeOneida, NY$3,000112024
Oneida Little LeagueOneida, NY$3,000112024
Great Swamp Conservancy IncCanastota, NY$2,275112024
Friends of Camden Central School FoundationBlossvale, NY$2,000112024
Oneida City Center CommitteeOneida, NY$2,000112024
Vvs Education FoundationSherrill, NY$2,000112024
Jessicas Heroes Foundation IncOneida, NY$1,250112024
American Legion Post 1287Chittenango, NY$1,000112024
Canastota Dollars for ScholarsCanastota, NY$1,000112024
Community Action Partnership for Madison CountyMorrisville, NY$500112024
Sherrillkenwood Fire DepartmentSherrill, NY$500112024
Shane Pinard Future Fishermans FoundationCanastota, NY$250112024

1 of 17 (6%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 36 grants to individuals totalling $403,906 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 11 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Environment
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20231$1,000$1,000
202417$85,775$2,000

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

Oneida, NY
$62K
Syracuse, NY
$10K
Morrisville, NY
$6K
Canastota, NY
$4K
Sherrill, NY
$2K
Blossvale, NY
$2K
Chittenango, NY
$1K

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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 $2,000. 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 Oneida Savings Bank Charitable Foundation'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: Po Box 151, Oneida, NY, 13421. 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 16-1561680 · 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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