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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 FY2022
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $289,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $296,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,500 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 · 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
RecipientAmount
SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC$125,000
SYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL CORPORATION$20,000
CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC$20,000
OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC$20,000
DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE$20,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$13,200
POLISH SCHOLARSHIP FUND$12,750
LA FESTA ITALIANA INC$10,000
MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO 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
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE: $20k → 14%CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 14%SYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL CORPORATION: $20k → 14%ST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $13k → 14%FESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO INC: $10k → 14%JUBLIEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC: $7k → 14%SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $125k → 14%MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%OPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC: $20k → 14%WESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION: $6k → 14%LA FESTA ITALIANA INC: $10k → 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 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
The Joseph E Peter Foundation
Philanthropy
2
A Place for Jazz Ltd

Present live jazz concerts and promote jazz music and jazz education.

Education
3
Dikaia Foundation Inc
Education
4
Syracuse International Film Festival Inc

Promotion of film in central new york

Arts & Culture
5
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Present chamber music concerts for public

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6
Syracuse Urban Partnership Inc
Philanthropy
7
Festivals Fredonia Inc

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…

Unclassified
8
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
9
Syracuse St Patrick's Parade Committee Inc

Hold st patrick's day parade

Arts & Culture
10
Milwaukee Jazz Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
11
The Folkus Project Incorporated

To foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and related performing arts in Syracuse and Central NY.

Arts & Culture
12
Ahepa Syracuse Foundation Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse Jazzfest Productions Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INCCENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INCLA FESTA ITALIANA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLA FESTA ITALIANA INCJUNETEETH INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE INC: $20,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUS…SYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherSYRACUSE HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL C…ST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $13,200 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRANIAN …Polish Scholarship Fund Inc: $12,750 · OtherPolish Scholarship Fund IncFESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO INC: $10,000 · OtherFESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO INCOPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION …JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE HO…MOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CNY INC: $8,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$169,000Other$75,950Housing & Shelter$27,000Philanthropy$10,000Civil Rights$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE JAZZFEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetDOWNTOWN COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOPERATION NORTHERN COMFORT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPolish Scholarship Fund Inc: $12,750 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOUNTAIN GOAT RUN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetLA FESTA ITALIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESTCOTT AREA CULTURAL COALITION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

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.

CNY Arts IncCentral New York Comm…
CNY Arts IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: CNY Arts Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc

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 Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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