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CNY Arts Inc

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

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$441k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $2,082,061, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,644,093 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $562,032 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $226k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $699k
$11,150
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Young Men's Christian Association and Women's Community Center of Rome New: $8k → 16%Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc: $93k → 14%Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc: $70k → 14%YMCA of Greater Syracuse: $28k → 14%YMCA of Greater Syracuse: $26k → 14%YMCA of Greater Syracuse: $25k → 14%YMCA of Greater Syracuse: $25k → 14%YMCA of Greater Syracuse: $10k → 14%Elmcrest Children's Center Inc: $9k → 14%Jewish Community Center of Syracuse: $8k → 14%Jewish Community Center of Syracuse: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 42 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
56

Total granted

$8.0M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

79%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MA
    Musical Associates of Central New York
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +32%
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
  • EM
    EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • FS
    Film Six LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $569k
  • TL
    TUPON LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $453k
  • F1
    Film 15
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
2
Cny Arts Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Present chamber music concerts for public

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4
Smithtown Performing Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Strand Center for the 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.

Arts & Culture
6
Artsnys

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Community Cultural Center of the Sidney Arts and Culture Exchange

Our mission is to enrich and connect the community of Sidney, New York through diverse arts and entertainment experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Central New York Community Arts Council Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
10
Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

—
11
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in

To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.

Arts & Culture
12
The Palace Performing Arts Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redhouse Arts Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
35/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Musical Associates of Central New York: $2,199,307 · Arts & CultureMusical Associates of Central New YorkDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $1,205,479 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY: $1,094,621 · Arts & CultureEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTYSYRACUSE OPERA COMPANY INC: $473,795 · Arts & CultureSYRACUSE OPERA COMPANY INCSU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE: $428,715 · Arts & CultureSU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGESYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE: $290,484 · Arts & Culture+39 more: $1,490,866 · Arts & Culture+39 moreFilm Six LLC: $569,234 · OtherFilm Six LLCTUPON LLC: $452,509 · OtherTUPON LLCREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC: $303,857 · OtherREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INCFilm 15: $300,000 · OtherFilm 15Ralphie's Car Inc: $181,866 · OtherRalphie's Car IncVisitator Pictures NY Inc: $179,626 · OtherVisitator Pictures NY IncPlainclothes LLC: $127,352 · Other+43 more: $883,214 · Other+43 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc: $277,287 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC: $13,400 · Human Services+3 more: $21,700 · Human ServicesITHACA COLLEGE: $54,630 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $10,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC: $7,500 · EducationOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 · EducationDOWNTOWN SYRACUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,843 · Community ImprovementWESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $23,193 · Community ImprovementNEAR WEST SIDE INITIATIVE INC: $8,000 · Community ImprovementPRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC: $23,903 · Civil RightsRestoreforlife: $8,843 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$7,183,267Other$2,997,658Human Services$312,387Education$78,380Community Improvement$57,036Civil Rights$23,903Youth Development$8,843

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMusical Associates of Central New York: $2,199,307 over 7y, 14% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $1,205,479 over 6y, 11% of budgetEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY: $1,094,621 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetSYRACUSE OPERA COMPANY INC: $473,795 over 6y, 22% of budgetSU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE: $428,715 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC: $303,857 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE: $290,484 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc: $277,287 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $218,030 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetSYRACUSE CITY BALLET INC: $203,305 over 7y, 10% of budgetSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC: $153,239 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetSYRACUSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $139,508 over 6y, 40% of budgetThe CORA Foundation Inc: $85,833 over 7y, 15% of budgetNEW YORK STATE RHYTHM & BLUES FEST INC: $83,693 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetLIGHT WORK VISUAL STUDIES INC: $73,994 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $54,630 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOINED ARTISTS MUSICIANS & SINGERS INC: $42,800 over 5y, 36% of budgetSYRACUSE POSTER PROJECT INC: $40,827 over 4y, 22% of budgetSOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC: $38,693 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetSYRACUSE COMMUNITY CHOIR INC: $36,988 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER INC: $35,293 over 3y, 14% of budgetSyracuse Children's Theatre Inc: $33,439 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNINE MILE ART CORP: $29,400 over 4y, 86% of budgetLA JOVEN GUARDIA DEL TEATRO Y LA DA: $27,093 over 2y, 47% of budgetDOWNTOWN SYRACUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,843 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $23,193 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Folkus Project Incorporated: $23,043 over 2y, 18% of budgetBREADCRUMBS PRODUCTIONS INC: $20,843 over 2y, 16% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $17,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOLOGY CLUB OF SYRACUSE: $15,750 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSyracuse Film Center Inc: $14,994 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetPolish Scholarship Fund Inc: $14,750 over 2y, 15% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC: $13,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLINTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC: $12,505 over 1y, 27% of budgetSYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHITTENANGO LANDING CANAL BOAT MUSEUM: $10,450 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ERIE CANAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION INC: $9,750 over 1y, 17% of budgetCAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRestoreforlife: $8,843 over 1y, 12% of budgetELMCREST CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTS GUILD OF OLD FORGE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC: $7,505 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUTICA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AND WOMEN'S COMMUNITY CENTER OF ROME N: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Comm…Allyn Family Foundati…The John Ben Snow Fou…The Dorothy and Marsh…JM McDonald Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…The Rosamond Gifford …The Gladys Krieble De…Jim and Juli Boeheim …The William G Pomeroy…The Community Foundat…Mather Fund Richard M…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization CNY Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CNY Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 109 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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