The Central New York Community Foundation supports a wide variety of projects, but does restrict itself to:
- making grants to tax-exempt, not-for-profit organizations so certified by the Internal Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3); publicly supported organizations such as schools and municipalities; and
- making grants from the Community Fund and other board-directed funds to qualified organizations in Onondaga and Madison counties.
The Community Foundation will not make more than one grant within a 12-month period to the same organization, nor does it expect to make recurring grants to the same project.