· Public charity
Employees' Federated Community Service
Charitable bequests
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $60,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,060 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,850 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NY | $45,000 |
| BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER | $8,210 |
| THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +8%
- PEPEOPLE'S EQUAL ACTION AND COMMUNITY EFFORT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +24%
- BWBALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GLGOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +192%
- MHMAUREEN'S HOPE FOUNDATIONINCgraduated2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +205%
- JHJOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +115%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
Home headquarters, inc is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1996. over the past 25 years, home headquarters has been committed to creating housing and related opportunities and services in upstate new york…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Responsive to Our Community Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 20 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S EQUAL ACTION AND COMMUNITY EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WCNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE ALONG INC ↗
- Who funds Central New York Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds GOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUREEN'S HOPE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Responsive to Our Community Inc ↗
- Who funds PAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hope for Bereaved 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Equitable 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 Employees' Federated Community Service 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.