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Synakos Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| College of Creative Studios at USSB | $50,000 |
| New Mexico School for the Arts | $16,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Branches | $15,000 |
| PNW Plateful | $13,000 |
| Arts Corps | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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 +2004% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2018–2023 · $169k
- ININTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY3× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +4% · 30% of their budget
- FSFIRST SERVE-NM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue ×21
Funded once
- SRSANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- PSPEACEHEALTH ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $400k
- KBKING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STAETSone grant, 2020 · $160k
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.
Women in Neuroscience is building a diverse community of women leaders in neuroscience and neurology through student internships, mentorship, and scholarships.
The mission of the Organization is to identify new avenues to serve the art, science, and technology community. The Organization is recognized as a global leader in the interdisciplinary world of art, science, and technology. For over 50…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
The lab gives significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented artists. we seek to transform alongside artistic practices in order to engage meaningfully with visionary communities whose economic and cultural…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
At nevada school of the arts (nsa), our mission is to provide a dynamic and inclusive performing and visual arts education to a diverse community of students spanning all ages and backgrounds. while educating the artists and audiences of…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Academy for the Love of Learning Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pnw Plateful. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WHATCOM HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVES CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Childrens Hospital Branches Inc ↗
- Who funds PNW Plateful ↗
- Who funds Arts Corps ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTER ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Synakos 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.
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