· Private foundation
Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS | $90,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $61,349 |
| GIRARD HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KMS FARMSTEAD | $25,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| EMMANUEL CARE CENTER | $16,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OHIO BUSINESS WEEK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY | $3,000 |
| GIRARD MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
| RESCUE MISSION MAHONING VALLEY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of your 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- FBFIRST BAPITST CHURCH2× · 2020–2021 · $80k
- GHGIRARD HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $51k
- ECEMMANUEL CARE CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $23k
Funded once
- YSYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +106%
- ABAMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 18 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
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 Americans for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO BUSINESS WEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation 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.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% 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.