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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $272,602, the rows itemized in this filing. The $477,328,221 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $477,055,619 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 $10k6 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$18,900
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESF FOUNDATION$101,000
INTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY$35,060
CNY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$22,865
LONGHOUSE COUNCIL INC$22,377
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$18,900
261 FEARLESS INC$9,950
CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION$9,250
SAINT AGATHA FOUNDATION$9,000
FOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC$7,500
THE IMAGE INITIATIVE INC$6,500
ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSN$5,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 14%VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 14%VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
TX
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 10 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$576k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +33%
  • IW
    INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +214%
  • FG
    FOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York University
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • UL
    US LACROSSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -1%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +21%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
8
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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9
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
10
Albany Institute of History and Art

A regional museum, founded in 1791, dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art and culture of albany and the upper hudson valley region of new york state.

Arts & Culture
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County; the most unlike its peers is Solomon R Guggenheim 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONGHOUSE COUNCIL INC: $104,642 · OtherLONGHOUSE COUNCIL INCINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $79,230 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW …CONGRESSIONAL CLUB MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION: $13,920 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $13,700 · OtherFOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INC: $28,000 · OtherFOCUS GREATER SYRACUSE INCTHE IMAGE INITIATIVE INC: $26,500 · OtherTHE IMAGE INITIATIVE INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $132,275 · HealthAmerican Heart Associati…CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $66,200 · HealthCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,630 · HealthSundance Institute: $73,720 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteSU THEATRE CORPORATION D/B/A SYRACUSE STAGE: $22,225 · Arts & CultureSU THEATRE CORPORATION…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $22,050 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $18,900 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM F…INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDA…INDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS VALUES INIT…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,200 · Arts & Culture+2 moreESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 · EducationESF COLLEGE FOUNDA…New York University: $50,000 · EducationNew York Universit…US LACROSSE INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsUS LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports261 FEARLESS INC: $9,950 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropySAINT AGATHA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyMAUREEN'S HOPE FOUNDATIONINC: $5,390 · PhilanthropyVERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $29,955 · Human Services
Other$265,992Health$207,105Arts & Culture$185,595Education$151,000Recreation & Sports$59,950Philanthropy$39,390Human Services$29,955

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 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 budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

Central New York Comm…The Dorothy and Marsh…The Rosamond Gifford …Allyn Family Foundati…Jim and Juli Boeheim …Price Chopper's Golub…JM McDonald Foundatio…Herbert S and Eleanor…CNY Arts IncThe John Ben Snow Fou…Health Foundation for…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Syracuse University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Syracuse University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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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