· Community foundation
Central New York Community Foundation Inc
Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 436 grants below total $23,588,992 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,199,053 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,610,061 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k109 grants · $776k
- $10k–50k233 grants · $4.7M
- $50k–250k80 grants · $7.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL | $2,462,750 |
| ONONDAGA COUNTYDEPARTMENT OF CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $1,500,000 |
| SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION | $1,061,350 |
| CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,005,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $661,300 |
| ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF NURSING | $587,762 |
| EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $542,188 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH OF AUBURN | $450,000 |
| ROAD TO EMMAUS MINISTRY | $427,800 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYADVANCEMENT & EXTERNAL AFFAIRS | $348,247 |
| ED23 FOUNDATION | $330,500 |
| LE MOYNE COLLEGEOFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT | $321,950 |
| BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE | $304,245 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC | $280,000 |
| UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $249,859 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
547 repeat relationships — 260 still active in FY2025, 287 since wound down; 143 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +8%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +45%- SLSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +663% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +29%
- SUSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYLIBRARIESone grant, 2019 · $251k
- SUSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYSI NEWHOUSE SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
746 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 746 of the 1,126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOME HEADQUARTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JOHN D BARROW COLLECTION OR ART GALLERY D/B/A THE BARROW GALLERY ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES RECREATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST C/O MICHAEL BESAW ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SYRACUSE NY ↗
- Who funds CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds STONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO EMMAUS MINISTRY OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POMEROY HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of Central New York Inc · CNY Arts Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Central New York Community Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.