Essex County > Keeseville - Upstate Giving

The community was named after the family of Richard Keese, congressman.

Keeseville won a $4.5 million grant through the state’s NY Forward program in 2025. The funds will be used to revitalize a 24-acre area along the Ausable River, with redevelopment of historic buildings into housing, restaurants, small businesses, and essential services.

One of the largest organizations here, the North Country Camps Foundation, runs Camp Lincoln for boys and Camp Whippoorwill for girls. Owned by the Gucker family for nearly a century, the camps transitioned to a nonprofit status in 2018.

Libraries: Keeseville Free Library

Emergency services: Keeseville Fire Department

Fraternal organizations: Elks, Masons, VFW

Not-for-profit cemeteries: Douglas Cemetery, Port Kent Cemetery

Recent grants:

GRANT KEY:

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  1772 Foundation - Morristown, NJ - $10,000  (2023)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $4,500  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $1,000  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $1,500  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  NYS Council on the Arts - New York, NY - $49,500  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  NYS Council on the Arts - New York, NY - $40,000  (2023)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Albany, NY - $122,935  (2026)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Teck Foundation - Wilmington, DE - $20,000  (2023)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Tianaderrah Foundation - New York, NY - $25,000  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Tianaderrah Foundation - New York, NY - $25,000  (2023)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  W J Silverstein Family Trust - Portland, OR - $5,000  (2023)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Webb Larson Family Foundation - Rhinebeck, NY - $1,000  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Wisnefski Foundation - Staten Island, NY - $11,500  (2025)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Wisnefski Foundation - Staten Island, NY - $1,500  (2024)

Adirondack Architectural Heritage
  Wisnefski Foundation - Staten Island, NY - $1,000  (2023)

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  Chapel Hill Foundation - Plattsburgh, NY - $5,000  (2024)

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  Chapel Hill Foundation - Plattsburgh, NY - $2,500  (2023)

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  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $1,000  (2024)

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  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $5,000  (2024)

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  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $14,000  (2023)

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  David & Candace Weir Foundation - Albany, NY - $20,000  (2024)

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  David & Candace Weir Foundation - Albany, NY - $15,000  (2023)

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  Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation - New York, NY - $10,000  (2024)

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  Mother Cabrini Health Foundation - New York, NY - $175,000  (2024)

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  Mother Cabrini Health Foundation - New York, NY - $200,000  (2023)

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  New York State Health Foundation - New York, NY - $79,948  (2023)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $5,005  (2024)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $7,500  (2024)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $1,000  (2024)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $1,000  (2023)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $4,164  (2023)

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  Prospect Hill Foundation - New York, NY - $7,500  (2023)

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  U.S. Department of Agriculture - Washington, DC - $99,900  (2023)

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  Wright Family Foundation - Schenectady, NY - $5,000  (2024)

Anderson Falls Heritage Society
  William G Pomeroy Foundation - Syracuse, NY - $1,950  (2024)

Anderson Falls Heritage Society
  Wright Family Foundation - Schenectady, NY - $2,500  (2024)

AuSable Valley Central School District
  Corporation for National & Community Service - Washington, DC - $66,000  (2024)

AuSable Valley Central School District
  Corporation for National & Community Service - Washington, DC - $66,000  (2023)

Ausable Valley Grange (NYS Grange Educational and Cultural Foundation)
  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $1,000  (2024)

Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine
  Cloudsplitter Foundation - Saranac Lake, NY - $1,125  (2023)

Hamlet of Keeseville
  NY Forward - Albany, NY - $4,500,000  (2025)

Immaculate Conception Church
  Michael J Coughlin Trust - Dallas, TX - $4,822  (2024)

Immaculate Conception Church
  Michael J Coughlin Trust - Dallas, TX - $6,933  (2023)

North Country Camps Foundation
  Heidecorn Family Foundation - New York, NY - $12,500  (2023)

Largest nonprofits in Keeseville (by assets) include:

North Country Camps Foundation
Adirondack Architectural Heritage
George and Shirley Moore Foundation
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Keeseville Free Library
Knights of Columbus
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA
Corlear Bay Property Owners Assoc
Upwelling Foundation