New York · Nonprofit
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,605,976 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($15,852,467). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $21M
What The Synergos Institute Inc does
Mission
The synergos institute ("synergos") is a global nonprofit organization that helps solve complex issues around the world by advancing bridging leadership, which builds trust and collective action. We work on issues such as health, nutrition, agriculture, and youth employment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ethiopia - synergos has been working with the ethiopian government to strengthen the agricultural sector, with a focus on improving the lives of smallholder farmers and their families. Agricultural growth is a key driver of the country's economy and is important to achieving interconnected goals of food security, poverty reduction and economic development to improve the lives of smallholder farmer and their respective families.
$3,015,595 spentof which $1,165,369 as grants47% of program spendingNetworks - synergos manages global and regional networks of leaders in philanthropy and civil society, including the global philanthropists circle (gpc), the pioneers network of social entrepreneurs in the arab world and the global synergos senior fellows. The gpc works with private philanthropists to leverage their resources and increase the impact of their philanthropy. The arab world program works with leaders in egypt, palestine, jordan, lebanon, and morrocco who lead social enterprises that improve the lives of people in their communities. Synergos' senior fellows is a global network of civil society leaders committed to addressing proverty and inequity.
$2,203,682 spent$2,188,648 earned by the program34% of program spendingSee schedule opartnerships - synergos builds collaborations on issues of national and regional importance, helping partners create systemic change and improved lives through bridging leadership. In nigeria, synergos works with state ministries of agriculture and others to enact multistakeholder approaches to agriculture, engaging government, private sector, civil society, and smallholder farms. In ethiopia, synergos supports the ministry of agriculture to engage agriculture sector partners, including efforts to increase productivity and household incomes of smallholder farmers in agricultural commercialization clusters for horticulture. In south africa, synergos is developing municipal and community leadership for improved service delivery and socio-economic development in communties. In bangladesh, synergos is leading a coalition of partners from across sectors to scale integrated community-based childcare centers for early childhood care and development including drowning prevention. In brazil, synergos strengthens collaboration and leadership capacity for improved working conditions and wellbeing of the country's public healthcare workers. In mena, synergos promotes social…
$788,836 spent$101,266 earned by the program12% of program spendingNigeria - synergos works in nigeria to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Our programs recognize the importance of agriculture's linkages with markets, nutrition, gender, and employment. We work to strengthen capacity among leaders in the agricultural sector and we create collaborative opportunities for those in government, business, investors, philanthropists and farmers organizations. South africa - synergos south africa strengthens municipalities' collaborative leadership and builds community engagement to address local development priorities through a bridging leadership approach. Communication & outreach - communications helps create and disseminate knowledge and information to synergos constituencies, provides materials to enhance the work done with partners and raise support, and helps market synergos events and programs.
$396,026 spent$137,047 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,404,139.
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 2021 to 2022, from $29M to $23M (−22%).
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.
80% of THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Camille Massey
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell $3.1M → $2.5M.
12 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 83% · 2019 76% · 2020 19% · 2021 50% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% — 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
40% of THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC's revenue fell 64% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Synergos Institute - South Africa · exempt
- Synergos Namibia Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC?
- THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,605,976 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($15,852,467). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $34,605,976 in grants to THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,852,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 79 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