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Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 59
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$603k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving38$56k24%
FY202435$43k37%
FY202337$49k24%
FY202241$56k34%
FY202137$42k43%
FY202059$59kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$54kHealth$46kArts & Culture$39kYouth Development$16kFood & Nutrition$13kScience & Tech$10kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 58 grantees
All grantees of Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dimitri House Inc$8,50061%
St Peters Kitchen Inc$8,50040%
Rochester Engineering Society Inc$8,000433%
The Center for Youth Services Inc$7,50040%
Lifespan of Greater Rochester Inc$7,00040%
Mercy Flight Central Inc$6,00040%
The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To$6,00050%
Meal & More Inc$5,53433%
Rochester Museum & Science Center$5,50040%
Pines of Peace Inc$5,00050%
Special Olympics New York Inc$5,00050%
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum$5,00020%
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc$4,50020%
Keuka Comfort Care Home Inc$4,50050%
East House Corporation$4,00030%
Starbridge Services Inc$3,50040%
Angels of Mercy Inc$3,50041%
Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc$3,50040%
The Corn Hill Waterfront & Navigation Foundation$3,50020%
Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc$3,00041%
Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha$3,00021%
John W Jones Museum$3,00031%
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc$3,00040%
Rochester Community Robotics$2,50010%
Sisters for a Better Black Community Inc$2,5002n/a
Equicenter Inc$2,50020%
Rochester School for the Deaf$2,50030%
Genesee Country Museum$2,20020%
Monroe Professional Engineers Society$2,0001n/a
Pet Adoption Network Ltd$2,00012%
Fairport Baptist Homes$2,00030%
St Andrews Food Cupboard Inc$2,00011%
The Susan B Anthony House$2,00020%
Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion- State Historic Park$2,00020%
Rochester Education Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Villa of Hope$2,00020%
House of Mercy Inc$2,00010%
Cameron Community Ministries Inc$1,50020%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Mary Cariola Children's Center Inc$1,50020%
St Josephs Neighborhood Center Inc$1,0001n/a
Family Promise of Greater Rochester Inc$1,00010%
Genesee Community Charter School$1,00010%
Hillside Foundation$1,00010%
Hillside Children's Center$1,00010%
NAMI National$1,00010%
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley Inc$1,00010%
Rochester Presbyterian Home Inc$1,00010%
Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach Inc$1,00020%
Rochester Friendly Home$1,00010%
Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc$1,00010%
St Ann's Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Arc Foundation of Monroe Inc$50010%
Bridges for Brain Injury Inc$50010%
Heritage Christian Services Inc$5001n/a
Trillium Health Inc$50010%
Borinquen Dance Theatre Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDimitri House Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSt Peters Kitchen Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Engineering Society Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLifespan of Greater Rochester Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Flight Central Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeal & More Inc: $5,534 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetRochester Museum & Science Center: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPines of Peace Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics New York Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMargaret Woodbury Strong Museum: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeuka Comfort Care Home Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEast House Corporation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStarbridge Services Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAngels of Mercy Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVolunteers of America of Western New York Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corn Hill Waterfront & Navigation Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHappy Birthday Cha Cha Cha: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJohn W Jones Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Landmark Society of Western New York Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRochester Community Robotics: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEquicenter Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester School for the Deaf: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGenesee Country Museum: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPet Adoption Network Ltd: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFairport Baptist Homes: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrews Food Cupboard Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Susan B Anthony House: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonnenberg Gardens and Mansion- State Historic Park: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRochester Education Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVilla of Hope: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Mercy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCameron Community Ministries Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Cariola Children's Center Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGenesee Community Charter School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Children's Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Genesee Valley Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Presbyterian Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpiritus Christi Prison Outreach Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Friendly Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY77.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc

How much does Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc give?
Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dimitri House Inc ($9k), St Peters Kitchen Inc ($9k), Rochester Engineering Society Inc ($8k).
Does Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation, Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
Where is Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc based?
Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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