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· Public charity
DOWNTOWN SYRACUSE FOUNDATION INC
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
$296k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants
1
Communities
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$12,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$598k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC$125,000
- SYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL CORPORATION$20,000
- OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC$20,000
- DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE$20,000
- CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC$20,000
- ST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$13,200
- POLISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND$12,750
- FESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO INC$10,000
- LA FESTA ITALIANA INC$10,000
- MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC$10,000
- JUNETEETH INC$8,000
- PRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC$8,000
- JUBLIEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC$7,000
- WESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION$6,000
02The need
02
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Syracuse University
Syracuse university is a non-profit research university devoted to education, research and public engagement.
Education
2
Syracuse Arts Academy
The education of students grades k-9.
Education
3
A Place for Jazz Ltd
Present live jazz concerts and promote jazz music and jazz education.
Education
4
Syracuse International Film Festival Inc
Promotion of film in central new york
Arts & Culture
5
Syracuse Urban Partnership Inc
Philanthropy
6
Syracuse St Patrick's Parade
Hold st patrick's day parade
Arts & Culture
7
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Present chamber music concerts for public
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8
Technology Club of Syracuse
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9
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
10
Central New York Community Foundation
The central new york community foundation is a public charity that turns community dollars into community change. it receives contributions from donors, manages them to grow over time and then distributes funding to address the region's…
Philanthropy
11
Lake George Music Festival
Charitable
Arts & Culture
12
Festivals Fredonia Inc
Festivals Fredonia contributes to a high quality of life in Fredonia and surrounding communities by presenting lively recreation and cultural opportunities to village and area residents. The six core festivals stimulate tourism, highlight…
Unclassified
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse Jazzfest Productions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Northern Comfort Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$161,000Other$83,950Housing & Shelter$27,000Philanthropy$10,000Civil Rights$8,000
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 SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds POLISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds LA FESTA ITALIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC ↗
- Who funds JUBLIEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
CNY Arts IncNY18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: CNY Arts Inc
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 organisation DOWNTOWN SYRACUSE 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 161410254 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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