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Onondaga Civic Development Corporation at a glance

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Onondaga Civic Development Corporation

The ONONDAGA CIVIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION supports the county of onondaga government, businesses, and not for profit corporations.

$307k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$313kCommunity Improvement$175kEducation$74kFood & Nutrition$60kAnimals$53kHealth$50kEnvironment$46kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$46,354
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMY AT SYRACUSE STUDIOS INC$250,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY SUNY ESF$46,354
SYRACUSE-ONONDAGA PLANNING AGENCY (COUNTY OF ONONDAGA NY)$5,500
02The need
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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 (FY19–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE NEW YORK: $25k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of Onondaga Civic Development Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 54%.

Onondaga Civic Development Corporationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 33% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field
05the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ACADEMY AT AMERICAN HIGH INC: $250,000 · EducationTHE ACADEMY AT AMERICAN HIGH INCThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $53,645 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State Univers…Le Moyne College: $20,000 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeSMG: $60,000 · OtherSMGPRISCILLA MAHAR ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherPRISCILLA MAHAR ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATIONCROUSE HEALTH INC: $50,000 · OtherCROUSE HEALTH INCRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY SUNY ESF: $46,354 · OtherRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY…SYRACUSE STUDIOS LLC: $33,000 · OtherSYRACUSE STUDIOS LLCAD FILMS LLC: $20,000 · OtherAD FILMS LLCHACK UPSTATE LLC: $15,000 · OtherROBERTS OFFICE FURNITURE CONCEPTS INC: $12,500 · Other+3 more: $25,500 · Other+3 moreCENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $125,000 · Community ImprovementCENTERSTATE CORPORAT…FOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC: $19,300 · Community ImprovementFOCUS GREATER SYRACU…THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$323,645Other$314,854Community Improvement$144,300Human Services$25,000

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 budgetCENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $125,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $53,645 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLe Moyne College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC: $19,300 over 1y, 14% 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 THE ACADEMY AT AMERICAN HIGH INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Onondaga Civic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Onondaga Civic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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