· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $122k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IBERO AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE | $360,200 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE FINGER LAKES | $122,350 |
| PATHSTONE INC | $43,835 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +71%
IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +69%
Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $689k · revenue +224% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE FINGER LAKESone grant, 2021 · $93k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $68k
- FPFOCUS PLANone grant, 2018 · $41k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Joining together to raise every child's complete wellbeing.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Child Care Council Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds PATHSTONE CORPORATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Action for a Better Community Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Action for a Better Community Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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