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· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Central New York Inc

To serve the interest and well being of jews in central new york and worldwide.

$970k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.1MEducation$1.7MReligion$679kHousing & Shelter$150kInternational$72kMembership Benefit$12k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $920,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $969,514 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,540 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $453k
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$36,347
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE$276,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$216,170
SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$177,245
SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$60,000
SCHLC INC$38,105
RABBI EPSTEIN SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES$36,347
TEMPLE ADATH YESHURAN$32,738
CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM-CHEVRAS SHAS$28,222
HILLEL AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$26,250
JEWISH HOME OF CNY$20,830
TEMPLE CONCORD$8,567
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $277k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $270k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $268k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $266k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $253k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $247k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $223k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $220k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $212k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $60k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $43k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $43k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $43k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $39k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $37k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $35k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $35k → 14%SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $35k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 12 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$5.3M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+44%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +53%
  • SH
    SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +79% · 26% of their budget
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $283k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SYRACUSE JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +44%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • SH
    SAFE HAVEN MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +80%
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.

04Its 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
Jewish Home Lifecare

Our mission is to empower older adults to enhance purpose and well-being through a portfolio of innovative health care services.

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2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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8
Jewish Life Foundation
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9
Fall River Jewish Home Inc

To provide skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to residents and clients of all faiths in a safe, compassionate atmosphere that reflects jewish social, cultural and spirtual values.

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10
Sherit Isroel
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11
The Jerusalem Connection
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12
Ccf New York Jewish French Community Center of Ny Inc

To further French Jewish Culture, help integration of American in France and French in USA concerning Jewish Culture

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Menorah Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC: $2,235,023 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INCSYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $368,000 · Human ServicesSYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,979,318 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMER…SCHLC INC: $276,101 · PhilanthropySCHLC INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $158,064 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTR…SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $1,435,339 · EducationSYRACUSE HEBREW DAY S…RABBI JACOB H EPSTEIN SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES INC: $270,883 · OtherJEWISH HOME OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $65,430 · OtherTEMPLE ADATH YESHURAN: $48,155 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM CHEVRAS SHAH: $45,217 · OtherSOCIETY OF CONCORD: $32,091 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $282,625 · ReligionMENORAH PARK: $150,200 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $66,500 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 · InternationalSYRACUSE JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION INC: $11,500 · Membership Benefit
Human Services$2,603,023Philanthropy$2,413,483Education$1,435,339Other$466,776Religion$282,625Housing & Shelter$150,200International$71,500Membership Benefit$11,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC: $2,235,023 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,979,318 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $1,435,339 over 9y, 26% of budgetSYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $368,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $282,625 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSCHLC INC: $276,101 over 9y, 43% of budgetRABBI JACOB H EPSTEIN SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES INC: $270,883 over 9y, 54% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $158,064 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $66,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOME OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $65,430 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION INC: $11,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds SCHLC INC ↗
  • Who funds RABBI JACOB H EPSTEIN SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE JEWISH CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HAVEN MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York IncNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jewish Federation of Central New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Central New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    6report 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.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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