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Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2021
16
Grants FY2021
16
Organizations funded FY2021
44%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 44% of the organizations Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202116$300k44%
FY202011$63kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$152kReligion$80kEducation$51kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$11kInternational$2kHealth$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Americans for the Arts Inc$90,00012%
First Bapitst Church$79,5492n/a
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc$20,00010%
Youngstown Symphony Society$16,50011%
Big Brothers - Big Sisters of Mahoning Valley Inc$6,0002n/a
Ohio Business Week Foundation$4,50024%
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society$1,8001n/a
Heart Reach Neighborhood Ministries$1,25020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation

How much does Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation give?
Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $299,549 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Religion (22%), Education (14%).
Who are Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Americans for the Arts Inc ($90k), First Bapitst Church ($80k), Mystic Seaport Museum Inc ($20k).
Does Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation based?
Charles W & Sarah Jane Syak Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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