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Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY faculty and staff support student success by:- encouraging global study, experiential learning,…

$477M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$273k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$18,900
Largest grant, FY2025
$101,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Syracuse University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$248k45%
FY20247$123k29%
FY20238$191k25%
FY20228$106k50%
FY20214$37k50%
FY20205$62k40%
FY20195$61k40%
FY20183$49k100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$221kArts & Culture$184kYouth Development$131kEnvironment$101kReligion$79kRecreation & Sports$60kEducation$50kHuman Services$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Syracuse University supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $132,275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLonghouse Council Inc: $104,642 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEsf College Foundation Inc: $101,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInterfaith Works of Central New York: $79,230 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSundance Institute: $73,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrouse Health Foundation Inc: $66,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Lacrosse Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVera House Foundation Inc: $29,955 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFocus Greater Syracuse Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetThe Image Initiative Inc: $26,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $22,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Club Museum and Foundation: $13,920 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMuseum of Science & Technology Foundation: $13,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIntrepid Museum Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Lacrosse Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndigenous Values Initiative Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget261 Fearless Inc: $9,950 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSaint Agatha Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $8,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRobert H Jackson Center Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMaureen's Hope Foundationinc: $5,390 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOnondaga Historical Association: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · CNY Arts Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · Ge Aerospace 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.

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About Syracuse University

How much does Syracuse University give?
Syracuse University reported 12 itemized grants totaling $272,602, out of $477,328,221 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Syracuse University fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Arts & Culture (20%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Syracuse University's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Heart Association Inc ($132k), Longhouse Council Inc ($105k), Esf College Foundation Inc ($101k).
Does Syracuse University fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Syracuse University?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation, The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation.
Where is Syracuse University based?
Syracuse University is based in NY.

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 28 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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