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Suny Impact Foundation Inc

The suny impact foundation's mission is to support suny in taking what works to scale to drive student success.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$63MHuman Services$661kPublic Benefit$226kHealth$188kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kCivil Rights$51kEnvironment$17kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $14,070,303, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,606,645 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $536,342 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$110,873
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION$2,061,214
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,538,816
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION$1,265,176
STONY BROOK FOUNDATION$1,230,623
SUNY SYSTEM ADMIN$1,057,501
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$617,527
GENESEO FOUNDATIONINC$546,108
MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$534,023
POTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION$482,315
SOCIAL FINANCE INC$450,000
OSWEGO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$436,932
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$400,202
ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$313,623
PLATTSBURGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION$270,082
BRANCH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DIVERSITY$231,260
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $758k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $450k → 16%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $211k → 14%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $20k → 17%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $20k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63M · 52 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
21

Total granted

$63M
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+28%

Still filing today

94%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20M · revenue +206%
  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +180%
  • UA
    UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +52%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $70k
  • GF
    GENESEO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -81%
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
The College of Staten Island Foundation Inc

The foundation was established to stimulate and strengthen community,corporate and foundation support for public higher education on staten island and to support the college of staten island in providing its students with the finest…

Education
2
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
3
Suny Impact Foundation Inc

The suny impact foundation's mission is to support suny in taking what works to scale to drive student success. the foundation works with philanthropies and private sector partners to leverage investments in student success initiatives…

Education
4
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
5
Bronx Community College Foundation Inc

To build an endowment fund which can provide investment income, thereby enabling the college to maintain a level of excellence beyond that provided by tax dollars. it ensures continuation of the record of excellence by providing support…

Philanthropy
6
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
7
Lower Columbia College Foundation

Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.

Education
8
State University of New York At Albany Benevolent Association Inc

The association's primary mission is to foster educational opportunities for students and faculty of the state university of new york at albany by making grants for the establishment of student grants and loan funds and through making…

Education
9
United University Professions College Scholarship Fund

United university professions was organized to improve the terms and conditions of employment of those it represents; to promote mutual assistance and cooperation among the members of this organization; to advance education in a democracy…

—
10
The Foundation for City College

An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.

Education
11
City University Construction Fund

The mission of city university construction fund ("cucf") is to manage the resources necessary for the design and construction of space required to support the educational mandate of the city university of new york.

Education
12
Northeast State Community College Foundation

To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schenectady County Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Geneseo Foundation. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
52/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $19,745,778 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $7,461,783 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation IncUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $6,291,702 · EducationUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $5,793,283 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INCTHE GENESEO FOUNDATION INC: $2,956,733 · EducationTHE GENESEO FOUNDATION INCPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,879,409 · Education+38 more: $10,130,909 · Education+38 moreSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $2,495,583 · OtherSTATE UNIVERS…MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,385,033 · OtherMONROE COMMUN…STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $501,111 · OtherSTATE UNIVERS…CANTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $359,510 · OtherCORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,699 · Other+23 more: $1,406,122 · Other+23 moreWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,377,270 · PhilanthropyBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,127 · Philanthropy+2 more: $82,817 · PhilanthropySocial Finance Inc: $450,000 · Human ServicesTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $267,567 · Human Services+2 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesNECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER: $150,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$54,259,597Other$7,448,058Philanthropy$1,585,214Human Services$757,567Public Safety & Disaster$150,000

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 budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $19,745,778 over 7y, 11% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $7,461,783 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $6,291,702 over 7y, 10% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $5,793,283 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetTHE GENESEO FOUNDATION INC: $2,956,733 over 4y, 34% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,385,033 over 4y, 15% of budgetPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,879,409 over 6y, 14% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,377,270 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,239,756 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $1,107,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $842,639 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $827,208 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $701,021 over 5y, 17% of budgetBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $613,330 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $547,822 over 4y, 17% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $501,111 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPLATTSBURGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $480,816 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NY COLLEGE AT FARMINGDALE FOUNDATION: $451,574 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $379,634 over 4y, 13% of budgetCANTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $359,510 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $346,384 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT FOUNDATION INC: $346,159 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSUNY COBLESKILL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $335,676 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,699 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSUNY MARITIME FOUNDATION INC: $273,416 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $267,567 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $234,838 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetMEB ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DIVERSITY INC: $231,260 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOLD WESTBURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $219,405 over 3y, 24% of budgetFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $214,762 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC: $202,467 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUFFOLK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC: $152,331 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER: $150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $145,740 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $139,752 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,127 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $107,465 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $106,470 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $99,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $83,125 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $76,082 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $72,077 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $67,365 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCOLLEGE FOUNDATION AT DELHI INC: $63,806 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $59,835 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetALFRED STATE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $59,489 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $54,595 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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.

Ibm International Fou…Central New York Comm…The New York Communit…Verizon FoundationThe Community Foundat…Community Foundation …A Lindsay & Olive B O…Community Foundation …The Dyson FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Corning Incorporated …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…
Ibm International FoundationNY31.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Verizon Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation

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 Suny Impact Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suny Impact Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Suny Impact Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Suny Impact Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home