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Howard Drescher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN | $45,000 |
| Road to Emmaus Ministry | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CNY | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CNY | $25,000 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS | $25,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS | $21,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY INC | $20,000 |
| ASTURIAS MALDONADO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LeMoyne College - Loyola Hall | $15,000 |
| YEAZEL CATHOLIC EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| HOPE FOR BEREAVED INC | $13,000 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL CHAR SCH TRUST | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CNY INC | $10,000 |
| Red Cloud Indian School | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
60 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- HFHope for Bereaved Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +18%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +97%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ATA TINY HOME FOR GOOD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +170%
- CGCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +51%
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.
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…
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,…
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
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.
Our mission is to help individuals achieve their highest level of capability and increase opportunities for their future success. we are committed to person-centered, family focused services.
Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.
Mid-york senior homes is a 72 unit housing complex that provides affordable housing to senior citizens.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
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…
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.
The lutheran service society of new york is a not-for-profit organization providing various social services to individuals and families in the western new york area. these services include programs for the developmentally disabled and…
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 Marymount Manhattan College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 86 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 Hope for Bereaved Inc ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central New York Inc ↗
- Who funds The Humane Association of CNY Inc ↗
- Who funds Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds FAITH HERITAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Salt City Harvest Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
- Who funds MARKUS PAUL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING MEN PROGRAM 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 · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation · United Way of Central New York Inc · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158
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 Howard Drescher Foundation 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.
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
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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