· Private foundation
The Duke Malavenda Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTRAL CURRENT INC | $200,000 |
| MERCY WORKS | $55,000 |
| A TINY HOME FOR GOOD INC | $50,000 |
| DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| JDRF CENTRAL NEW YORK CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| THE LANDMARK THEATRE | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF CNY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MARY NELSON YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BRADY FAITH CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR ARIANG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $41k) 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 +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CCCENTRAL CURRENT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $315k · revenue +220% · 51% of their budget
- OPON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $278k · revenue +88%
- ATA TINY HOME FOR GOOD INC2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- AAALS ASSOCIATION UPSTATE NEW YORK CHAPTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -95%
- SSSOUTH SUDAN VILLAGES CLINICone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
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.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
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,…
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.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
Central new york lyme and tick-borne disease alliance, inc. (the "alliance") was formed for the charitable and educational purposes of serving as a collaborative of providers, scientists and community members who support research, drive…
To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cora Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 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 MERCYWORKSINCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds A TINY HOME FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION UPSTATE NEW YORK CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF CNY INC ↗
- Who funds REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR ARIANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds CORA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE POSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST 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 · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation · CNY Arts Inc · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of Central New York Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York
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 Duke Malavenda Foundation Inc 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.