· Private foundation
The Mitchell and Louis Shulman Charitable Trust
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CNY | $4,000 |
| TEMPLE NER TAMID | $3,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CNY | $667 |
| EMPOWER PARKINSON INC | $500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FRONT ROW PLAYERS | $500 |
| THE REV THEATRE CO | $500 |
| THE SPIRITUAL RENEWAL CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SHSYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $16k · revenue +42%
- EPEMPOWER PARKINSON INC2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +157%
- OIOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- SBSuny Brockportone grant, 2018 · $36k
- OPON POINT FOR COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +160%
- BYBROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
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.
Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.
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.
New york jewish agenda held events and briefings, and worked with elected officials and grass-tops leaders to enact our vision of a socially just new york.
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
The suny impact foundation's mission is to support suny in taking what works to scale to drive student success. the foundation works with philanthropies and private sector partners to leverage investments in student success initiatives…
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
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.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central New York Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER PARKINSON INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERRY-GO-ROUND PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INKULULEKO INC ↗
- Who funds Syracuse Children's Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONT ROW PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds CNY Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CNY INC ↗
- Who funds Spiritual Renewal Center of Syracuse 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 John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Horowitch Family Foundation · Green Family Foundation Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 The Mitchell and Louis Shulman Charitable Trust 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.
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