· Public charity
CNY Arts Inc
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $2,082,061 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,644,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $562,032 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 $10k16 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $699k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Musical Associates of Central New York (Syracuse Orchestra) | $440,912 |
| Discovery Center of Science & Technology (MOST) | $258,395 |
| Everson Museum of Art | $216,458 |
| Plainclothes LLC | $127,352 |
| SU Theatre Corporation (Syracuse Stage) | $103,835 |
| Redhouse Arts Center | $99,577 |
| Back Home Film Corp | $98,296 |
| Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre (Landmark Theatre) | $94,144 |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc | $93,412 |
| Syracuse City Ballet | $71,591 |
| Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation Inc | $70,253 |
| Skaneateles Festival | $60,841 |
| Pipe Dream Productions | $36,296 |
| New York State Rhythm and Blues Festival | $30,000 |
| Light Work Visual Studies Inc | $21,900 |
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, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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
- MAMusical Associates of Central New York7× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +32%
- DCDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +16%
- EMEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +85%
Funded once
- FSFilm Six LLCone grant, 2021 · $569k
- TLTUPON LLCone grant, 2021 · $453k
- F1Film 15one grant, 2024 · $300k
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.
The organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.
Present chamber music concerts for public
The organization's mission is to ensure that performing arts will continue to be available in downtown smithtown, new york and preserve the historic nature of the smithtown center for performing arts.
The organization's mission is to unite arts with community through education and presentation by creating a culture where art is essential and accessible to everyone.
ArtsNYS leads state-wide efforts to advance the arts throughout New York State by: Serving as a coordinating and convening agency for a broad range of arts service groups; Leading efforts to promote the arts and to educate the public about…
Our mission is to enrich and connect the community of Sidney, New York through diverse arts and entertainment experiences.
Through live performances, theatrical events and educational avenues, the stanley theatre, operated by the central new york community arts council, remains the center for excellence in the arts, community engagement and economic stability…
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts
To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.
To operate the historic palace theater a 2,800-seat cultural and entertainment facility that is located in albany, ny. the organization works to organize cultural and entertainment events presenting affordable, diverse, quality, popular…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redhouse Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Technology Club of Syracuse. 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 29 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 109 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 Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE ↗
- Who funds REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds The CORA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE RHYTHM & BLUES FEST INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT WORK VISUAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOINED ARTISTS MUSICIANS & SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE POSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE COMMUNITY CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Syracuse Children's Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NINE MILE ART CORP ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund
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 CNY Arts 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.
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.