New York State Technology Enterprise
Rome, NY · EIN 16-1521105. Reported 63 grants totalling $2,243,022 to 35 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 36% 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 much its list changes. 49% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,056 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rome Hospital Foundation Inc | Rome, NY | $804,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| State University of New York Polytechnic Institute Foundation I | Utica, NY | $306,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nydesign Inc | Troy, NY | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc & Womans Community Center of Rome New York | Rome, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Fibonacci Foundation Inc | Rome, NY | $78,056 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| To Life Inc | Delmar, NY | $66,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Economic Development Growth Enterprises Corporation | Rome, NY | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Office of General Services | Albany, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $39,095 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Hospice Foundation Inc | Albany, NY | $31,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Griffiss Institute Inc | Rome, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Le Moyne College | Syracuse, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $23,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Council Inc | Albany, NY | $20,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regional Food Bank of N E Ny Inc | Latham, NY | $18,470 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc | Utica, NY | $15,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Genesis Group Vision to Reality Inc | Utica, NY | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Homeless and Travelers Aid Society | Albany, NY | $11,125 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rome Chamber of Commerce Inc | Rome, NY | $10,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Americas Vetdogs the Veterans K9 Corps Inc | Smithtown, NY | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital Region Veterans Memorial Inc | Schenectady, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clear Path for Veterans Inc | Chittenango, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | Uniondale, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Common Pantry | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rescue Mission Alliance | Oxnard, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Northeast Blues Society Inc | Chatham, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Rome and Floyd County Inc | Rome, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samuel S Stratton Va Medical Center | Albany, NY | $9,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Abrahams Blessing | Albany, NY | $9,566 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South End Childrens Cafe Inc | Albany, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pearls of the Capital Region Foundation Inc | Albany, NY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jana's Way | Ilion, NY | $5,860 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| KIPP Tech Valley Charter School | Albany, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
14 of 35 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Rome Health Foundation
DONATION FOR NEW SURGICAL CENTER - SUNY Poly Foundation
$25K FUNDING FOR ENDOWED NYSTEC SCHOLARSHIP PLUS $15K STEM PROGRAMMING FUNDING; $150K NEW BUSINESS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE - YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN 2023 DONATION - Project Fibonacci Foundation Inc
STEAM YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES AND GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT - Griffiss Institute Inc
$27K FOR TRANSPORTATION COSTS FOR TWO SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS, THE REST IS GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT - Office of General Services
COMMUNITY EVENT SPONSORSHIPS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 35 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | $52,500 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 8 | $705,000 | $11,250 |
| 2022 | 18 | $467,536 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 17 | $403,650 | $10,600 |
| 2024 | 14 | $614,336 | $25,000 |
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
96% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 State Technology Enterprise's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 99 Otis Street 2ND Floor, Rome, NY, 13441.
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