New York · Public charity
Action for a Better Community Inc
Action for a better community is a community action agency that promotes and provides opportunities for low-income individuals and families to become self-sufficient.
- $555k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $526k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $122,350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $360,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Action for a Better Community Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $526k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $876k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $2.6M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.4M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $2.7M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc | $7,146,733 | 8 | 12% |
| Ibero-American Action League Inc | $6,710,695 | 9 | 9% |
| Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes | $815,848 | 6 | n/a |
| Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc | $689,485 | 5 | 33% |
| Monroe Community College | $613,977 | 4 | n/a |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $433,564 | 4 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $282,279 | 4 | 0% |
| Pathstone Corporation | $248,510 | 6 | n/a |
| Child Care Council Inc | $189,117 | 2 | 2% |
| University of Rochester | $149,480 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc | $7,146,733 | 8 | 12% |
| Ibero-American Action League Inc | $6,710,695 | 9 | 9% |
| Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes | $815,848 | 6 | n/a |
| Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc | $689,485 | 5 | 33% |
| Monroe Community College | $613,977 | 4 | n/a |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $433,564 | 4 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $282,279 | 4 | 0% |
| Pathstone Corporation | $248,510 | 6 | n/a |
| Child Care Council Inc | $189,117 | 2 | 2% |
| University of Rochester | $149,480 | 2 | 0% |
| Pathstone Corporation | $77,581 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Family & Community Services | $67,720 | 1 | n/a |
| Focus Plan | $40,962 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Action for a Better Community Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochesterworks Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Action for a Better Community Inc
- How much does Action for a Better Community Inc give?
- Action for a Better Community Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $526,385, out of $555,067 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Action for a Better Community Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), International (42%), Health (13%).
- Who are Action for a Better Community Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc ($7.1M), Ibero-American Action League Inc ($6.7M), Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes ($816k).
- Does Action for a Better Community Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Action for a Better Community Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Esl Charitable Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc.
- Where is Action for a Better Community Inc based?
- Action for a Better Community Inc is based in NY.
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