· Private foundation
The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE DOROTHY AND MARSHALL M REISMAN FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k37 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $500k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $484k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY INC | $250,000 |
| SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE INC | $250,000 |
| DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $73,192 |
| SALT CITY HARVEST FARM | $60,000 |
| NORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYR INC | $51,000 |
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL CURRENT INC | $50,000 |
| SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FDN OF CNY INC | $50,000 |
| CNY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SYRACUSE STAGE | $40,000 |
| EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SYR | $40,000 |
| CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–26, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2026, 28 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
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 FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- SASYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE4× · 2023–2026 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC6× · 2021–2026 · $419k · revenue +2%
- DADUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2026 · $222k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IWINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NYone grant, 2023 · $250k
- DCDEWITT COMMUNITY LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $125k
- WCWESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +47%
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.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
The purpose of the corporation is to provide for the encouragement, solicitation, promotion, procurement, and servicing of all forms of travel to and through onondaga county, new york, specifically including, but not limited to,…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 146 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 SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Brady Social Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CNY Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCYWORKSINCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Salt City Harvest Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds P E A C E INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Central New York Ronald McDonald House ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse ↗
- Who funds Syracuse Film Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · United Way of Central New York Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · CNY Arts Inc
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 The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman 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.
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.