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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
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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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentInternationalCivil RightsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$128k4%
FY202422$120k0%
FY202322$120k0%
FY202222$120k9%
FY202121$120k5%
FY202023$102k22%
FY201917$100k18%
FY201814$70k64%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$437kEducation$112kInternational$79kReligion$53kFood & Nutrition$43kCivil Rights$38kArts & Culture$31kHuman Services$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
NE
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$166,00090%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$65,0007n/a
Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca$50,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$41,00090%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$38,00080%
Anti-Defamation League$38,00080%
Children's Hospital Corporation$36,00080%
Cayuga Medical Center Foundation$35,00081%
The Carroll School$33,00080%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$25,60080%
Torah Academy Inc$22,5001n/a
Feeding America$21,00060%
Temple Beth Elohim$20,8007n/a
Montessori School of Syracuse$15,00090%
The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc$14,00051%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$12,00040%
Newton Food Pantry Inc$12,00040%
Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau$10,00014%
The Well School$8,50030%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$6,0001n/a
Solomon Schechter Day School Inc$5,0001n/a
Holocaust Legacy Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$4,50060%
Camp Corral$3,00020%
Birthright Israel Foundation$3,00010%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc$2,75060%
Worcester County Food Bank Inc$2,25060%
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc$2,00011%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$1,80010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,50010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,40010%
Brightfocus Foundation$1,00010%
Hospicare & Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County Inc$1,00010%
Learning Ally Inc$50010%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$36010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20010%
American Federation of Police and Concerned Citizens Inc$1001n/a
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism$1001n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$10010%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$501n/a

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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $166,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca: $50,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCayuga Medical Center Foundation: $35,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe Carroll School: $33,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontessori School of Syracuse: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Food Pantry Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Well School: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Corral: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorcester County Food Bank Inc: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrightfocus Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospicare & Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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.

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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.

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 53 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-PF 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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