· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| 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 |
| IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| VERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $700 |
| WCNY | $600 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS | $250 |
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $200 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Works of Central New York and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 44 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Jerome & Phyllis Charney 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.
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.