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Cygnus Management Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$84kHealth$45kFood & Nutrition$26kRecreation & Sports$24kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kHuman Services$13kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEMOYNE COLLEGE$50,000
SAMARITAN CENTER$4,000
CHABAD HOUSE$3,600
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,500
FOUNDATION AT MENORAH PARK$3,500
LEMOYNE COLLEGE$3,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$3,500
ONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,500
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$3,000
NASCENTIA HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$2,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
OUR LADY OF POMPEI$1,500
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SYRACUSE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $2k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $2k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$208k · 15 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$208k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+33%

Still filing today

60%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OC
    ONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • KD
    KINNEY DRUGS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +13%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTH AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • HC
    HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +9%
  • OO
    OFFICE OF VETERANS & MILITARY AFFAIRS CO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Kendal At Ithaca Inc

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.

Human Services
6
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute

Dedicated to improving the lives of people impacted by diabetes through research, education and care.

Health
10
Albany Med Health System

An academic health sciences system whose responsibilities are to provide a broad range of patient services to the people of eastern new york and western new england.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION AT MENORAH PARK — $24,000 · OtherFOUNDATION AT MENORAH PARKSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $17,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTER INCAMERICAN RED CROSS — $15,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSCHABAD HOUSE — $13,800 · OtherCHABAD HOUSENASCENTIA HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · OtherNASCENTIA HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONNORTH AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $5,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF POMPEI — $5,000 · Other+6 more — $11,000 · Other+6 moreLe Moyne College — $60,500 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $17,500 · EducationONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationKINNEY DRUGS FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $3,500 · Human ServicesCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · HealthOphelia's Place Inc — $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 · HealthCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$105,800Education$81,000Philanthropy$16,000Human Services$16,000Health$12,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLe Moyne College — $60,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $17,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKINNEY DRUGS FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOphelia's Place Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Le Moyne College
  • Who funds ONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC
  • Who funds KINNEY DRUGS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC
  • Who funds CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NORTH AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
  • Who funds HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK
  • Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC
  • Who funds Ophelia's Place Inc
  • Who funds American Heart Association 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Cygnus Management Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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