· 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $289,950 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $296,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,500 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC | $125,000 |
| OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE | $20,000 |
| SYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL CORPORATION | $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 |
| MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO INC | $10,000 |
| LA FESTA ITALIANA INC | $10,000 |
| PRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC | $8,000 |
| JUNETEETH INC | $8,000 |
| JUBLIEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC | $7,000 |
| WESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Present live jazz concerts and promote jazz music and jazz education.
Promotion of film in central new york
Present chamber music concerts for public
Festivals Fredonia contributes to a high quality of life in Fredonia and surrounding communities by presenting lively recreation and cultural opportunities for residents and visitors The five core festivals stimulate tourism highlight…
Hold st patrick's day parade
To foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and related performing arts in Syracuse and Central NY.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse Jazzfest Productions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polish Scholarship Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds Polish Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LA FESTA ITALIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNETEETH INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION 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.
Open a dossier: CNY Arts Inc · Central New York Community Foundation 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 organization 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.
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.
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