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New York Council of Nonprofits

Albany, NY · EIN 14-1343047. Reported 23 grants totalling $236,750 to 22 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$236,750granted, 2022-2024
12%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For New York Council of Nonprofits, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P280) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $7,250 and the largest $16,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Center for Agricultural Development and EntrepreneurshipOneonta, NY$29,500222023
A Magical Journey Thru Stages IncRochester, NY$10,000112024
Broome County Arts Council IncBinghamton, NY$10,000112024
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Catskill Symphony OrchestraOneonta, NY$10,000112024
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation IncSyracuse, NY$10,000112024
Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers IncIthaca, NY$10,000112024
Net Positive IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Roxbury Arts Group IncRoxbury, NY$10,000112024
Smith Center for the Arts IncGeneva, NY$10,000112024
Stitch Buffalo IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Teaching Artists RocRochester, NY$10,000112024
The Cherry Arts IncIthaca, NY$10,000112024
The Niagara Arts & Cultural Center IncNiagara Falls, NY$10,000112024
The Springville Center for the Arts IncSpringville, NY$10,000112024
Theatre of Youth Company IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Tioga County Council on the ArtsOwego, NY$10,000112024
Tri-County Arts Council IncOlean, NY$10,000112024
Trumansburg Conservatory of FineTrumansburg, NY$10,000112024
Western New York Book ArtscollaborativeBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Young Audiences of Western New York IncBuffalo, NY$10,000112024
Good Causes IncAlbany, NY$7,250112023

1 of 22 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Arts & Culture
17 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20221$13,500$13,500
20232$23,250$11,625
202420$200,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Buffalo, NY
$60K
Oneonta, NY
$40K
Rochester, NY
$20K
Ithaca, NY
$20K
Binghamton, NY
$10K
Syracuse, NY
$10K
Roxbury, NY
$10K
Geneva, NY
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo8 shared recipientsArts Services Initiative of Western New5 shared recipientsThe John R Oishei Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Western New York Foundation4 shared recipientsMax and Marian Farash Charitable3 shared recipientsRochester Area Community Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from New York Council of Nonprofits's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 272 Broadway, Albany, NY, 12204.

EIN 14-1343047 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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