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Slutzker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $50,000 |
| SYMPHORIA | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| ONONDAGA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CNY | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| MENORAH PARK OF CNY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| MEADOWBROOK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Slutzker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LORETTO FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $300k · revenue -12%
- SSSYRACUSE STAGE3× · 2022–2024 · $230k
- MAMusical Associates of Central New York3× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue -26%
Funded once
- TATHE AL HIRSCHFELD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -2%
- CTCAPITOL THEATREone grant, 2021 · $14k
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
To ensure the continuity of the community in syracuse, new york with particular emphasis on promoting charitable, community-building, spiritual, and peace-and-justice-promoting activities
The medical alumni foundation's purpose is to support the goals of the state university of new york upstate medical university and the alan and marlene norton college of medicine, to enhance excellence of the educational environment and to…
Hillel of Buffalo serves the jewish community at the NYS University at Buffalo and encourages the participation of jewish students and faculty from all area colleges and universities. It is Hillel of Buffalo's mission to foster jewish…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE LORETTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AL HIRSCHFELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Slutzker Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.