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Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$6,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
THE HOLOCAUST LEGACY FOUNDATION$5,000
CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$5,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
EAC MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ITHACA$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$5,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$4,000
THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN$4,000
THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$3,600
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%JEFF'S PLACE: $2k → 8%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $250 → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $250 → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $250 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$928k · 26 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$928k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+45%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +162%
  • EA
    ELIZABETH ANN CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ITHACA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • TA
    TORAH ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ITHACA YOUTH BUREAU
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -61%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +91%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc

Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

37 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. 37 of the 53 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
31/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $65,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCJP: $40,000 · OtherCJPALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $33,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $29,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYTORAH ACADEMY INC: $22,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $20,800 · Other+24 more: $75,800 · Other+24 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $166,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $41,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP…Children's Hospital Corporation: $36,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationCAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $14,000 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · HealthELIZABETH ANN CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ITHACA: $50,000 · EducationELIZABETH …THE CARROLL SCHOOL: $33,000 · EducationTHE CARROL…MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF SYRACUSE: $15,000 · EducationMONTESSORI…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $38,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $38,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $38,000 · Civil RightsFeeding America: $21,000 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $2,250 · Food & NutritionThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,600 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $360 · Arts & Culture
Other$461,100Health$300,500Education$98,000International$79,200Civil Rights$38,000Food & Nutrition$35,250Arts & Culture$30,960

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

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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $38,000 over 8y, 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH ANN CLUNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ITHACA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF SYRACUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ITHACA YOUTH BUREAU ↗
  • Who funds THE WELL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP CORRAL ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
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 →

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
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 Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael & Helen Cyker Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get 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 · 0–30%
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 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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