New York · Nonprofit
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 784 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,829,596 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,357,333). 453 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0B
- Funders on record
- 784
- Grants received
- $218M
- Net assets
- $3.6B
What Syracuse University does
Mission
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, Syracuse University faculty and staff support student success by:- encouraging global study, experiential learning, interdisciplinaryscholarship, creativity, and entrepreneurial endeavors- balancing professional studies with an intensive liberal arts education- promoting a culture of innovation and discovery- supporting faculty, staff, and student collaboration in creative activity and research that address emerging opportunities and societal needs- maintaining pride in our location and history as a place of access, engagement, innovation, and impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and departmental research:expenditures in this area include salaries and benefits for faculty, scholarships and grants to students, and support for facilities and equipment, conducted for the benefit of approximately 16,000 undergraduate and 6,600 graduate and law students enrolled at Syracuse University.
$951,213,466 spentof which $467,453,748 as grants57% of program spendingStudent services:expenditures in this area include support services for the university's undergraduate freshmen and sophomores. The university has a two-year residence requirement for freshmen and sophomores with the primary purpose of contributing to the students' emotional and physical well-being and their intellectual, and social development outside the formal instruction program.
$329,832,072 spentof which $9,874,473 as grants$1,385,821,678 earned by the program20% of program spendingSponsored research and other related activities:expenditures in this area include research and similar activity funded by grants from the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
$89,983,758 spent$129,622,106 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program service expenditures support Syracuse University's academic and research initiatives through provision of academic support, student services and general institutional support, the critical components to seamless delivery and to meeting the needs and expectations of Syracuse University's students and faculty.
$296,535,423 spent$171,786,694 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,667,564,719.
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 $4.7B to $5.4B (+16%).
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.
5% of SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey M Scruggs
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 174 funders to 284 funders, grant income rose $17M → $37M.
81 of 784 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $327M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Atlantic Coast Conference); $422k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Syracuse University Alumni Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 784 funders by total. 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
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 20 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 20 funders to its left
53% 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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 19% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 9% — 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
39% of SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 states 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
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $440.9M on record — $440.7M federal, $254k state.
- National Science Foundation$139.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$115.9M
- Department of Education$71.6M
- Department of Defense$37.5M
- Department of Energy$20.5M
- Small Business Administration$18.8M
- NJ$173k
- DE$36k
- OR$18k
- OK$14k
- VT$13k
- FL$681
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Orange Insurance Company LLC · disregarded
- Su Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center · disregarded
- Su Advance Holdings LLC · disregarded
- 601 South Crouse Avenue LLC · disregarded
- Su Alumni Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY?
- SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 784 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,829,596 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,357,333). 453 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 784 organizations giving $217,829,596 in grants to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 453 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,357,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 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.
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 784 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing