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THE CENTER FOR REGIONAL STRATEGIES INC
The center for regional strategies, inc.
$335k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
1
Communities
$235k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
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2024
springboard prizeprize awardaward winnerwinner further
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$235,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NFC DEVELOPMENT CORP$235,000
- THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP DBA NORTHLAND WORKFORCE TRAINING CENTER$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 70% of THE CENTER FOR REGIONAL STRATEGIES INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE CENTER FOR REGIONAL STRATEGIES INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 70% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your 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.
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Upstate Venture Connect Corporation
The Corporation is organized to accelerate growth of Upstate New York's technological economy. The corporation willaccelerate the creation and growth of knowledge based business fueled by private investorcapital, promote collaboration…
Community Improvement
2
Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc
To encourage the expansion of existing business and industry, as well as attracting new business and industry to the nine-county greater rochester, new york area.
Community Improvement
3
Greater Erie Economic Development
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4
University of Rochester
The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.
Education
5
Syracuse University
Syracuse university is a non-profit research university devoted to education, research and public engagement.
Education
6
Buffalo Urban Development Corporation
Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties
Community Improvement
7
Alfred Technology Resources Inc
To stimulate economic development in the southern tier region of ny, through support of the creation of innovative business start-ups and the jobs they create. this support is provided through its business incubator facilities and the…
Community Improvement
8
New York Water Environment
To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.
Environment
9
Western New York Impact Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Rochester Economic Development
Rochester economic development corporation (rocedc) is a private not-for-profit organization that exists to stimulate equitable economic growth that improves the quality of life in the city of rochester, new york.
Community Improvement
11
The Public Broadcasting Council of Cny
The public broadcasting council of central new york, inc. is a not-for-profit new york corporation which operates a non-commercial public television station (wcny) and a non-commercial public fm radio station (wcny) in syracuse, new york…
Arts & Culture
12
Niagara University
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Excell Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Research Foundation for the State University of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
7%
694/10,096
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.
05the grantee network
21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2023–2023.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since you first funded
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.
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.
Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNY25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to The Center for Regional Strategies Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Center for Regional Strategies Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines