· Private foundation
Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $40,000 |
| EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $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 |
| MADISON COUNTY CHILDREN'S CAMP | $5,000 |
| THE SYRACUSE ORCHESTRA (SYMPHORIA) | $5,000 |
| THE REV THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE RIPPLETON CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 62 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mather Fund Richard Mather Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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