· Private foundation
Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of MATHER FUND RICHARD MATHER FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $40,000 |
| THE HAVEN AT SKANDA | $33,500 |
| JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE THREE BEARS | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $15,000 |
| CORTLAND REPERATORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| EMMAUS MINISTRY | $7,000 |
| ERIE CANAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| REDHOUSE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE RIPPLETON CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE SYRACUSE ORCHESTRA (SYMPHORIA) | $5,000 |
| ED23 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE REV THEATRE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 INC7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +8%
- MAMusical Associates of Central New York5× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +32%
- OCOAKWOOD CEMETERIES OF SYRACUSE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SQSTONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -8%
- WWCYNone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
The mission of Syracuse Children's Theatre is to provide cultural enrichment to the children of Central New York through enjoyable, exciting and enlightening theatrical experiences, as well as highly acclaimed children's theatrical…
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 organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.
The purpose of the corporation is to provide for the encouragement, solicitation, promotion, procurement, and servicing of all forms of travel to and through onondaga county, new york, specifically including, but not limited to,…
The everson museum of art of syracuse and onondaga county is a not-for-profit organization located in syracuse, new york. its stated purpose is to conduct cultural, charitable, and educational activities. the museum's support comes…
Through live performances, theatrical events and educational avenues, the stanley theatre, operated by the central new york community arts council, remains the center for excellence in the arts, community engagement and economic stability…
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.
To provide multiple social service activities to all city of syracuse residents, although operations are geared to serve primarily those residents of the near southwest side of the city.
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…
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
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 Haven At Skanda. 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 38 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 62 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 Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD CEMETERIES OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE THREE BEARS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY CHILDRENS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN AT SKANDA ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO EMMAUS MINISTRY OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT ROW PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA CHILDREN'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK INC ↗
- Who funds ELMCREST CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE ERIE CANAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HANNIBAL HOME AND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE CHILDREN'S CHORUS LLC ↗
- Who funds CazCares 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 · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · CNY Arts Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · 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 Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund 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.
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