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Technology Club of Syracuse

FOSTERING INTEREST IN AND KNOWLEDGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of TECHNOLOGY CLUB OF SYRACUSE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION$22,000
SCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY$3,000
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC$2,000
ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,500
NYSASCD$1,000
NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC$1,000
THE PROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC$1,000
CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART$1,000
YWCA OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY INC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC$500
Individual grant recipient$500
OSWEGO COUNTY BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC: $500 → 6%CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $1k → 13%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY: $3k → 14%GRIFFIS INSTITUTE INC: $1k → 16%OSWEGO COUNTY BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $500 → 17%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $22k → 14%SCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY: $2k → 14%DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $21k → 14%SCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY: $2k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $12k → 14%NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC: $1k → 14%YWCA OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY INC: $1k → 14%NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC: $500 → 14%YWCA OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY INC: $1k → 14%ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC: $3k → 14%PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC: $2k → 14%CENTRAL NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $2k → 14%MS HANNAH DOUGHERTY: $500 → 14%AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $500 → 14%AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $500 → 14%NYSASCD: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 8 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$181k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+40%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DC
    DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $33k · revenue +114%
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • LM
    Le Moyne College
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • CN
    CENTRAL NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • GI
    GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +110%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Technology Club of Syracuse
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
Rochester Museum & Science Center

The mission of the rochester museum and science center is to create a better world through inspiring curiosity, exploration, and engagement across history, science, culture, and the natural world.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Discovery

To ignite and fuel a passion for science, technology, arts and math through dynamic interactive experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge, to help resolve the major global challenges facing society with science-based solutions, and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

6
New York Center for Research Economic Advancement Technology Engineeringand

The new york center for research, economic advancement, technology, engineering and science corporation (ny creates) formed for the purpose of advancing scientific research, education and economic development within new york state.…

Science & Tech
7
New York State Economic Development Council Inc

The mission of organization is to promote the economic development of new york state and its communities, encourage sound business practicies in the conduct of regional and statewide development programs, and to develop educational…

8
Charter School for Applied Technologies

The charter school for applied technologies prepares students to attain family sustaining careers by integrating career exploration and a life long learning culture.

Education
9
Center for Science and Law

Develop and educate on new technologies

10
New York State Association for Computers & Technologies in Education Inc

Educate new york state school computer coordinators on current computer technologies.

11
The Academy of Political Science

The academy's primary exempt purpose is to contribute to the scholarly examination of political institutions, processes and public policies; enrich political discourseand channel the best social science research for use in public policy…

12
New York Structural Biology Center Inc

The nysbc mission is to provide advanced research resources to the faculty of its participating member institutions and researchers from the national community in three key areas of structural biology: nuclear magnetic resonance…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Science Olympiad Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aviation Historical Society of Central New York Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $109,200 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONSCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY — $7,000 · OtherSCI-TECH CENTER OF NORTHERN NY+7 more — $6,000 · OtherONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 · EducationONONDAGA COMMUNITY …Le Moyne College — $10,000 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeNEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC — $2,000 · EducationNEW YORK STATE SCIE…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY — $32,900 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER OF…+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Science & TechGRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · Science & TechAVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$122,200Education$34,500Arts & Culture$33,900Youth Development$5,000Science & Tech$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $109,200 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY — $32,900 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLe Moyne College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AND BUSINESS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SYRACUSE AND ONONDAGA COUNTY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNYSASCD — $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $1,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetPROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Allyn Family Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · 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 Technology Club of Syracuse 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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