New York · Private foundation
Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
- $133k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $128k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $120k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $120k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $102k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $100k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $70k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $166,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $65,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cayuga Medical Center Foundation | $35,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Carroll School | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $25,600 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust reported 24 grants totaling $132,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (11%), International (8%).
- Who are Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($166k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($65k), Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca ($50k).
- Does Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust is based in NY.
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