The Adirondack Trust Company
Saratoga Springs, NY · EIN 26-6394395. Reported 70 grants totalling $1,145,453 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Adirondack Trust Company, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,100 and $18,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Museum at Saratoga | Saratoga Springs, NY | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Saratoga Regional Young Mens Christian Association | Saratoga Springs, NY | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Anzafrika | Mamaroneck, NY | $108,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rosies Theater Kids Inc | New York, NY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aga Khan Foundation USA | Washington, DC | $57,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Saratoga County History Center | Ballston Spa, NY | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pitney Meadows Community Farm Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $46,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Skidmore College | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $31,247 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Franklin Community Center Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gateway House of Peace Inc | Ballston Spa, NY | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Child Haven International -USA- Inc | Massena, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Senior Citizens Center of Saratoga Springs Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Airway Revolution Foundation Inc | Staten Island, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Veterans & Community Housing Coalition Inc | Ballston Spa, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Together-Saratoga County | Ballston Spa, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc | Troy, NY | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regional Food Bank of N E Ny Inc | Latham, NY | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Wesley Foundation Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $16,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Church of St Peter | Saratoga Springs, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University at Albany Foundation | Albany, NY | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| True Colors United Inc | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wamc | Albany, NY | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gateway House of Peace | Ballston Spa, NY | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | New York, NY | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Easy Water for Everyone | Pinehurst, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Focus Humanitarian Assistance U S a | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Abortion Federation | Annapolis Jct, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raquette Lake Fire Department Inc | Raquette Lake, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sanctum House Inc | Novi, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saratoga Hospital Foundation | Saratoga Springs, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saratoga Springs Universal Preservation Hall | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shaker Heritage Society | Albany, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Actors Fund of America | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saratoga Institute Inc | Saratoga Springs, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Captain Community Human Services Inc | Clifton Park, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood - Mohawk Hudson | Schenectady, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $6,456 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mooncatcher Project Inc | Schenectady, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saratoga Rowing Association Inc | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Albany Med Health System | Albany, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saratoga Center for the Family | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
17 of 44 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $346,600 | $10,250 |
| 2022 | 20 | $380,255 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $165,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $253,098 | $10,000 |
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
92% 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.
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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 the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 The Adirondack Trust Company's own Form 990 Schedule I 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: 31 Church Street, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866.
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