· Private foundation
Jerome & Phyllis Charney 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jerome & Phyllis Charney Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of Central New York Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Jerome & Phyllis Charney Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $2,400 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,800 |
| CONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,700 |
| DIAPER BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $1,200 |
| VERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $700 |
| WCNY | $600 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $400 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $200 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK3× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +80%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +34%
- CCCONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- CHChabad Houseone grant, 2017 · $1k
- SJSt Jude Research Hospitalone grant, 2020 · $1k
- NNechamaone grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Jewish home of central new york residential living'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 is committed to maintaining…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Jewish home's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. menorah park is committed to maintaining jewish values and traditions.
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.
Founded in 2002, following 9/11, nydis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit faith-based federation of over 60 diverse judicatories, disaster human services providers, and charitable organizations who work in partnership to provide disaster readiness,…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
New york jewish agenda held events and briefings, and worked with elected officials and grass-tops leaders to enact our vision of a socially just new york.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
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.
The mission of the daughters of sarah nursing center, inc. is to enhance the quality of life, assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve through residential, personal care, health and other quality…
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Leonard and Irwin Kamp Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Arlene L & Jerome R Gerber Family Foundation · Froelich Family Foundation · Howard Drescher Foundation · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jerome & Phyllis Charney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome & Phyllis Charney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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