· Private foundation
The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation
Its FY2024 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: 78% of THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD CHARITABLE CORPORATION’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $185k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $214k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $213,500 |
| OTHER | $13,931 |
| OTHER | $11,442 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,420 |
| WORKTRAIN (FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT) | $10,500 |
| DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| OTHER | $9,144 |
| SYRACUSE GROWS | $7,960 |
| PARK CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN | $7,500 |
| POWER INC | $5,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO | $5,375 |
| DAVID'S REFUGE | $5,300 |
| CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANKOFA REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & HEALING CENTER | $5,000 |
| BLACK HEALTH INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k 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
- HHHOME HEADQUARTERS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +120%
- RAREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $37k · revenue +3%
- CACNY Arts Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- GSGREATER SYRACUSE PROPERTY DEVCORPone grant, 2021 · $45k
- NHNATURAL HERITAGE TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -43%
- EMEVERSON MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $22k
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 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 bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
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.
To conduct research, identify best policies and practices, secure resources and implement programs and projects to support the revitalization of downtown syracuse.
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,…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To provide multiple social service activities to all city of syracuse residents, although operations are geared to serve primarily those residents of the near southwest side of the city.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
Leads and supports adult literacy initiatives through enhancing the capacity of providers, engaging volunteers in service, creating public awareness and building more literate communities.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
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 Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Space Organization. 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 26 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 296 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HOME HEADQUARTERS INC ↗
- Who funds REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PGR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CNY Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds DUNBAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Juneteenth Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds Ophelia's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds JOWONIO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSORTIUM FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE AREA LANDMARK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ALTAMONT PROGRAM 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 John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · United Way of Central New York Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Equitable Foundation Inc · Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · Richard S Shineman 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 Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation 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.
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
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.