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· Public charity

The Upstate Foundation Inc

To receive and administer gifts and bequests for charitable purposes for education, research, patient care and community health and wellbeing, for suny upstate medical university and the central ny region.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
155
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$672k
Largest
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$45MEducation$1.7M
02FY2025 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 155 grants below total $6,730,769, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,767,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,037,081 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $441k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
$12,866
Median grant
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States reached
$325M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HSC FOUNDATION SPECIAL GIFTS FUND$671,534
GOLISANO CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS FUND$626,914
DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY COMPREHENSIVE FUND$480,440
PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT FUND$423,691
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ONON CTY ORRSASIC GRANT FUND$336,703
UPSTATE PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTIONER FELLOWSHIP FUND$264,681
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF FUND$172,382
NAPPI WELLNESS INSTITUTE FUND$163,597
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL MD LEGACY FUND$150,300
PLACE AT UPSTATE MEDICAL FUND$150,000
UPSTATE TICK TESTING LABORATORY$115,031
SPIRIT CHILD LIFE FELLOWSHIP FUND$101,946
BARBARA KOPP CANCER RESEARCH FUND$100,000
HOUSECALLS FOR THE HOMELESS FUND$95,303
PAIGE'S FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND$88,123
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 250 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

250 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2025, 131 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

250
163

Total granted

$36M
$9.2M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • GC
    GOLISANO CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.1M
  • HF
    HSC FOUNDATION SPECIAL GIFTS FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M
  • OP
    OASIS PROGRAM FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M

Funded once

  • UF
    UPSTATE FOUNDATION FOR UPSTATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES AT SYRACUSE I
    one grant, 2024 · $5.5M
  • NL
    NAPPI LONGEVITY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $486k
  • EC
    ELM - CAMH COMMUNITY PARTNER FUND FOR ELMCREST CHILDREN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $248k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 449 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPSTATE FOUNDATION FOR UPSTATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES AT SYRACUSE I: $5,509,863 · OtherUPSTATE FOUNDATION FOR UPSTATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES AT SYRACUSE IGOLISANO CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS FUND: $4,053,106 · OtherGOLISANO CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS FUNDHSC FOUNDATION SPECIAL GIFTS FUND: $2,873,376 · OtherHSC FOUNDATION SPECIAL GIFTS FUNDOASIS PROGRAM FUND: $2,272,298 · Other+196 more: $28,333,377 · Other+196 more
Other$43,042,020

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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How do I get to The Upstate Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Upstate Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 449 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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