How much does CNY Arts Inc give?

CNY Arts Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,082,061, out of $2,644,093 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does CNY Arts Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Human Services (3%), Science & Tech (3%).

Who are CNY Arts Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Musical Associates of Central New York ($2.2M), Discovery Center of Science & Technology ($1.2M), Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County ($1.1M).

Does CNY Arts Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as CNY Arts Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Allyn Family Foundation Inc, The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc.

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New York · Public charity

CNY Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 42
Itemized grants FY2025: 67
Organizations funded FY2024: 58%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $11,150
Largest grant, FY2025: $440,912
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 67; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations CNY Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	42	$2.1M	26%
FY2024	67	$2.5M	58%
FY2021	29	$1.4M	55%
FY2020	28	$1.2M	21%
FY2019	31	$1.2M	19%
FY2018	28	$1.1M	46%
FY2017	18	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$10.0MHuman Services$326kScience & Tech$274kReligion$49kCommunity Improvement$31kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Musical Associates of Central New York	$2,199,307	7	14%
Discovery Center of Science & Technology	$1,205,479	6	11%
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County	$1,094,621	7	7%
Film Six LLC	$569,234	1	n/a
Syracuse Opera Company Inc	$473,795	6	22%
Tupon LLC	$452,509	1	n/a
Su Theatre Corporation D/B/A Syracuse Stage	$428,715	7	2%
Redhouse Arts Center Inc	$303,857	7	3%
Film 15	$300,000	1	n/a
Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre	$290,484	7	5%

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All grantees of CNY Arts Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Musical Associates of Central New York	$2,199,307	7	14%
Discovery Center of Science & Technology	$1,205,479	6	11%
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County	$1,094,621	7	7%
Film Six LLC	$569,234	1	n/a
Syracuse Opera Company Inc	$473,795	6	22%
Tupon LLC	$452,509	1	n/a
Su Theatre Corporation D/B/A Syracuse Stage	$428,715	7	2%
Redhouse Arts Center Inc	$303,857	7	3%
Film 15	$300,000	1	n/a
Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre	$290,484	7	5%
Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc	$277,287	7	0%
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation Inc	$218,030	7	10%
Syracuse City Ballet Inc	$203,305	7	10%
Ralphie's Car Inc	$181,866	1	n/a
Visitator Pictures NY Inc	$179,626	1	n/a
Skaneateles Festival Inc	$153,239	6	9%
Syracuse International Film Festival Inc	$139,508	6	40%
Plainclothes LLC	$127,352	1	n/a
Back Home Film Corp	$98,296	1	n/a
Good You Plus Inc	$86,549	1	n/a
The CORA Foundation Inc	$85,833	7	15%
New York State Rhythm & Blues Fest Inc	$83,693	6	3%
Light Work Visual Studies Inc	$73,994	6	5%
Syracuse Shakespeare Festival Corp	$72,476	7	n/a
Ithaca College	$54,630	3	0%
Miguel Wants To Fight Inc	$45,000	1	n/a
Joined Artists Musicians & Singers Inc	$42,800	5	36%
Syracuse Poster Project Inc	$40,827	4	22%
Filming Real Emotional Experiences LLC	$40,283	1	n/a
APB Film LLC	$40,000	1	n/a
Society for New Music	$38,693	4	9%
Syracuse Community Choir Inc	$36,988	4	16%
Pipe Dream Productions	$36,296	1	n/a
The Community Folk Art Center Inc	$35,293	3	14%
Alone Film LLC	$34,647	1	n/a
Syracuse Children's Theatre Inc	$33,439	3	2%
St Stephen Lutheran Church	$31,369	2	n/a
State University of New York at Binghamton	$31,094	3	n/a
Onondaga Historical Association	$30,000	1	3%
Nine Mile Art Corp	$29,400	4	86%
La Joven Guardia del Teatro y la Da	$27,093	2	47%
Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc	$25,843	2	5%
Night House Inc	$24,418	1	n/a
Pride Community Center of Cny Inc	$23,903	2	n/a
Juneteeth Inc	$23,843	3	n/a
Westcott Community Center Inc	$23,193	3	1%
The Folkus Project Incorporated	$23,043	2	18%
Period Three Media LLC	$21,672	1	n/a
Breadcrumbs Productions Inc	$20,843	2	16%
New York Institute of Dance & Education	$19,200	2	n/a
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble Inc	$18,736	2	n/a
Interfaith Works of Central New York	$17,400	2	0%
Syracuse Chorale Inc	$15,915	3	n/a
Technology Club of Syracuse	$15,750	2	5%
Mermaid Film LLC	$15,263	1	n/a
Syracuse Film Center Inc	$14,994	2	5%
Polish Scholarship Fund Inc	$14,750	2	15%
Jewish Community Center of Syracuse Inc	$13,400	2	0%
Blackbird Film Festival	$12,842	1	n/a
Clinton Symphony Orchestra of the Mohawk Valley Inc	$12,505	1	27%
Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment Inc	$12,423	2	n/a
Syracuse Jazzfest Productions Inc	$11,750	1	2%
Patricia DeAngelis Piano Studio	$11,580	1	n/a
Arts Project Syracuse Inc	$10,500	1	n/a
Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum	$10,450	1	5%
Rome Community Concert Band Inc	$10,050	1	n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$10,000	1	0%
The Erie Canal Museum	$10,000	1	2%
Woodshill Inc	$9,950	1	n/a
Westcott Area Cultural Coalition Inc	$9,750	1	17%
Pinnacle International Center Inc	$9,350	1	n/a
Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY Inc	$9,205	1	n/a
727 Instrumental Inc	$9,050	1	n/a
Capitol Civic Center Inc	$9,000	1	0%
Restoreforlife	$8,843	1	12%
Elmcrest Children's Center Inc	$8,750	1	0%
Fulton Jazz Festival Inc	$8,700	1	n/a
The Arts Guild of Old Forge Inc	$8,500	1	1%
Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS)	$8,000	1	n/a
Near West Side Initiative Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Syracuse Pops Chorus Inc	$7,994	1	n/a
Smg Dba the Greek Theatre	$7,989	1	n/a
Other Side of Utica Inc	$7,800	1	n/a
Unity Hall Foundation Inc	$7,505	1	9%
Jewish Community Federation of the Mohawk Valley Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Utica Public Library	$7,500	1	1%
Young Men's Christian and Women's Community Center of Rome N	$7,500	1	1%
Rematriation Inc	$7,500	1	1%
India Community Religious and Cultural Center	$7,200	1	n/a
Mid York Library System	$7,000	1	0%
Talent Agency Teen Art Portfolio	$7,000	1	n/a
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company Inc	$6,750	1	n/a
Punto de Contacto Point of Contact	$6,500	1	n/a
Center for the Arts of Homer Inc	$6,300	1	0%
Oswego University Foundation Inc	$6,250	1	0%
National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum	$6,203	1	13%
Auburn Public Theater Inc	$6,000	1	1%
Parents Promoting Dance	$6,000	1	13%
Cayuga Museum of History & Art Inc	$5,500	1	1%
Hopeprint Inc	$5,450	1	n/a
Camillus Canal Society Inc Co Gail Banks	$5,250	1	21%
Armory Square Association	$5,250	1	n/a
Jewish Home of Central New York Inc	$5,162	1	0%
Arts at the Palace Inc	$5,100	1	n/a
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts	$5,000	1	2%
The Childrens Museum of Oswego	$5,000	1	1%
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council	$5,000	1	2%
The Roxbury Arts Group Inc	$5,000	1	2%
H Lee White Maritime Museum Oswego	$5,000	1	2%

CNY Arts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY78.9× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 CNY Arts Inc

How much does CNY Arts Inc give?: CNY Arts Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,082,061, out of $2,644,093 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does CNY Arts Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Human Services (3%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are CNY Arts Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Musical Associates of Central New York ($2.2M), Discovery Center of Science & Technology ($1.2M), Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County ($1.1M).
Does CNY Arts Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as CNY Arts Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Allyn Family Foundation Inc, The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc.
Where is CNY Arts Inc based?: CNY Arts Inc is based in NY.