New York · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,681 to it, the largest being THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $835k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $587k
What Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation does
Mission
Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental enhancement - considers the cleanliness and visual appeal of downtown schenectady to be an essential part of all other redevelopment efforts throughout our district. Daily sidewalk maintenance, seasonal hanging baskets, landscaping and winter holiday decorations are just a few ways that we achieve this goal.
$496,176 spent$366,230 earned by the program75% of program spendingBusiness promotion marketing program - to promote downtown schenectady as a destination for shopping, dining, recreation and entertainment, as well as an ideal place to locate professional offices ranging from single proprietorships to major corporate headquarters.
$164,415 spent$121,356 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $660,591.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $609k to $772k (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 47% · 2019 40% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 31% · 2023 57% · 2024 32% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $150 → $101k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION?
- DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,681 to it, the largest being THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $205,681 in grants to DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION?
- THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing