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Syncopation Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Syncopation Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Syncopation Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $210k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT | $100,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ONL | $30,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $25,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $15,000 |
| DOE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| GO2 FDN FOR LUNG CANCER | $10,000 |
| GO2 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| IYENGAR YOGA ASSOCIATION | $526 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $515 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +84% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT3× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +50%
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +495%
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOL5× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +36%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +12%- BTBREAKING THE SILENCEone grant, 2017 · $5k
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +120%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds JEROME LOHEZ SEPTEMBER 11 SCHOLARSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BKS IYENGAR YOGA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TESS MAJORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MATH-M-ADDICTS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Syncopation 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.