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The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2026still arriving
69
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$2.8MReligion$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$888kEducation$594kHealth$347kEmployment$293kCommunity Improvement$260kOther$0
02FY2026 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k37 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $500k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $484k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JEWISH COMMUNITY FDN OF CNY INC$50,000
SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE$50,000
CENTRAL CURRENT INC$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SYR$40,000
EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
CENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC$40,000
CNY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$40,000
SYRACUSE STAGE$40,000
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 (FY21–26, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYRACUSE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY: $81k → 14%SYRACUSE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY: $81k → 14%TOOMEY RESIDENTIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE CORP: $8k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $100k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $33k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $33k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $33k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 14%SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE: $50k → 14%SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYR: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $5k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $7k → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 14%PEACE INC: $25k → 14%PEACE INC: $25k → 14%PEACE INC: $10k → 14%VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%SALT CITY HARVEST FARM: $60k → 14%CENTRAL NEW YORK DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%SALT CITY HARVEST FARM: $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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 73 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
60

Total granted

$7.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+2%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SA
    SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE
    4× · 2023–2026 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $419k · revenue +2%
  • DA
    DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2026 · $222k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IW
    INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NY
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • DC
    DEWITT COMMUNITY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • WC
    WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +47%
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
Central New York Quest Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Visit Syracuse Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
3
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Downtown Syracuse Foundation Inc

To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.

Community Improvement
5
Cny Fair Housing Inc

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.

—
6
Food Bank of Central 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…

Food & Nutrition
7
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
9
Cny Works Inc

To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.

—
10
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal
11
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
12
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
54/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY INC: $826,000 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKS OF CNY INCEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART: $609,900 · OtherEVERSON MUSEUM OF ARTSYRACUSE STAGE: $488,500 · OtherSYRACUSE STAGECENTRAL NY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherCENTRAL NY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NY: $250,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SYR: $240,000 · Other+93 more: $2,332,594 · Other+93 moreSYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureSYRACUSE AREA LANDM…CENTRAL CURRENT INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL CURRENT INCCNY Arts Inc: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $260,000 · Arts & Culture+13 moreDUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $221,500 · Human ServicesSYRACUSE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY INC: $162,000 · Human ServicesSalt City Harvest Farm Inc: $67,000 · Human ServicesP E A C E INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $50,000 · Human Services+6 more: $69,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $418,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $56,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $21,200 · PhilanthropyCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $180,000 · EducationMERCYWORKSINCORPORATED: $75,000 · EducationON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $56,500 · EducationGOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · EducationTHE READING LEAGUE INC: $35,000 · EducationNORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $32,500 · EducationINTERRELIGIOUS FOOD CONSORTIUM: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $6,500 · EducationBrady Social Enterprises Inc: $290,000 · EmploymentCENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC: $141,392 · Public BenefitGREATER SYRACUSE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$5,046,994Arts & Culture$1,540,000Human Services$690,000Philanthropy$548,500Education$448,000Employment$290,000Public Benefit$192,892

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE: $1,000,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $418,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBrady Social Enterprises Inc: $290,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC: $221,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL CURRENT INC: $200,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $180,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY INC: $162,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTERSTATE CEO FOUNDATION INC: $141,392 over 3y, 22% of budgetREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC: $125,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCNY Arts Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMERCYWORKSINCORPORATED: $75,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC: $70,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSalt City Harvest Farm Inc: $67,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetP E A C E INC: $60,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetWESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE ALLIANCE INC: $57,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $56,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $56,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $56,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral New York Ronald McDonald House: $52,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSyracuse Film Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMusical Associates of Central New York: $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe CORA Foundation Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetVERA HOUSE INC: $41,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $39,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE READING LEAGUE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE: $32,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetA TINY HOME FOR GOOD INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDEAF NEW AMERICANS ADVOCACY INC: $25,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetHOME HEADQUARTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFROM THE GROUND UP THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetKEYS CORP: $19,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC: $16,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERRELIGIOUS FOOD CONSORTIUM: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC: $12,500 over 2y, 4.8% 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.

  • 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 JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK 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 WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE 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 GREATER SYRACUSE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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…Allyn Family Foundati…The Rosamond Gifford …The John Ben Snow Fou…Jim and Juli Boeheim …Price Chopper's Golub…John Ben Snow Memoria…Mother Cabrini Health…United Way of Central…JM McDonald Foundatio…Herbert S and Eleanor…CNY Arts Inc
Central New York Community Foundation IncNY120.5× affinity62 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 · 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

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 The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    31report 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, 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 146 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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