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VISIT SYRACUSE INC

VISIT SYRACUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$141k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Visit Syracuse Inc does

Mission

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, conventions, conferences, meetings, seminars, leisure visitors, group tours, international travelers, students, sporting events and business travel.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide encouragement, solicitation, promotion, procurement and servicing of all forms of travel to and through onondaga county, new york specifically including but not limited to conventions, conferences, meetings, seminars, leisure visitors, group tours, international travelers, students, sporting events and business travel.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets -1520 ($-71176)2019 Revenue 104 ($2.7M) Expenses 104 ($2.7M) Net assets -821 ($-38442)2020 Revenue 79 ($2.1M) Expenses 78 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($5k)2021 Revenue 82 ($2.2M) Expenses 82 ($2.1M) Net assets 887 ($42k)2022 Revenue 106 ($2.8M) Expenses 107 ($2.8M) Net assets 1078 ($50k)2023 Revenue 128 ($3.4M) Expenses 128 ($3.3M) Net assets 2378 ($111k)2024 Revenue 143 ($3.8M) Expenses 144 ($3.7M) Net assets 3019 ($141k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (143)Expenses (144)Net assets (3019)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $460k to $1.5M (+219%).

$292k
$460k
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.2M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of VISIT SYRACUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’18
$31k
’19
$43k
’20
$37k
’21
$9k
’22
$61k
’23
$30k
’24
0.5
months of
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

Kathy Rapp

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed12141512121314
Joined·+2+3+2+1+2+3
No longer listed·025112
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

VISIT SYRACUSE INC's revenue grew 43% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Centerstate Corporation for Economic Opportunity · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIT SYRACUSE INC: 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 VISIT SYRACUSE INC?
VISIT SYRACUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VISIT SYRACUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to VISIT SYRACUSE INC.
Who is the largest funder of VISIT SYRACUSE INC?
CENTERSTATE CORPORATION FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VISIT SYRACUSE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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