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Serve Syracuse Inc

To support existing organizations who are serving the poor in syracuse by providing volunteers and funding so that they can expand their services.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$291kEducation$127kYouth Development$60kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$13k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $142,141, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,091 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,950 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
$12,899
Median grant
2
States reached
$495k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH$35,292
EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY$32,600
THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH$18,600
CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH$13,450
SYRACUSE SALT OF THE EARTH MINISTRIES$12,899
YOUNG LIFE$9,600
THE GATHERING PLACE$7,600
BETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE$6,500
SYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCH$5,600
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TENT MAKERS: $2k → 5%THE GATHERING PLACE: $8k → 14%YOUTH ALIVE: $9k → 15%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $13k → 15%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 9%SYRACUSE SALT OF THE EARTH MINISTRIES: $13k → 14%YOUTH ALIVE: $6k → 15%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8k → 15%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 9%THE GATHERING PLACE: $6k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7k → 15%YOUNG LIFE: $9k → 9%BETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE: $9k → 14%YOUNG LIFE: $8k → 9%BETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE: $7k → 14%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 9%BETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE: $7k → 14%MISSIO CHURCH: $4k → 14%MISSIO CHURCH: $1k → 14%EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY: $33k → 14%EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY: $29k → 14%EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY: $25k → 14%EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY: $25k → 14%EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY: $16k → 14%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 14%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 14%GRACE BAPTIST: $24k → 14%GRACE BAPTIST: $8k → 14%GRACE BAPTIST: $7k → 14%SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $35k → 14%CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $19k → 14%SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $15k → 14%CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 14%CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $12k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $12k → 14%SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $10k → 14%SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $9k → 14%SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $8k → 14%CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $7k → 14%SYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%SYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%SYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $6k → 14%CASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 13 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$503k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
-19%

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationReligionOther
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

  • EW
    EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUDENT SUPPORT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +33%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +62%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • T
    TENTMAKERS
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -19%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCH: $77,092 · OtherSYRACUSE NEPALI CHURCHCASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $57,006 · OtherCASA DE PAZ BAPTIST CHURCHTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: $50,654 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHGRACE BAPTIST CHURCH: $37,500 · OtherGRACE BAPTIST CHURCHBETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE OF SYRACUSE INC: $22,500 · OtherBETHLEHEM REVIVAL TEMPLE OF SYRACUSE INCSYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $17,600 · OtherSYRACUSE MYANMAR BAPTIST CHURCHNEW YORK DIST COUNCIL: $14,750 · OtherNorth Syracuse Baptist Church: $13,100 · OtherSYRACUSE SALT OF THE EARTH MINISTRIES: $12,899 · Other+1 more: $5,176 · OtherEAGLE WINGS ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUDENT SUPPORT INC: $127,200 · EducationEAGLE WINGS ACADEMY SCHOLAR…YOUNG LIFE: $43,403 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $27,329 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHR…CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF THE EMPIRE STATE INC: $10,150 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM …TENTMAKERS: $1,750 · Religion
Other$308,277Education$127,200Youth Development$80,882Religion$1,750

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 budgetEAGLE WINGS ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUDENT SUPPORT INC: $127,200 over 5y, 18% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $43,403 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $27,329 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF THE EMPIRE STATE INC: $10,150 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTENTMAKERS: $1,750 over 1y, 0.3% 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 EAGLE WINGS ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUDENT SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF THE EMPIRE STATE INC ↗
  • Who funds TENTMAKERS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Serve Syracuse Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serve Syracuse Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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