New York · Private foundation
Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $464k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $464k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $504k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $526k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $556k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $559k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $516k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $470k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $432k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John Fisher University | $889,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Nazareth University | $758,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Roberts Wesleyan University | $203,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Aquinas Institute of Rochester | $70,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Wxxi Public Broadcasting Council | $62,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc | $59,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To | $52,500 | 9 | 0% |
| YMCA of Greater Rochester (4368) | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation
- How much does Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation give?
- Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $463,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Health (18%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St John Fisher University ($889k), Nazareth University ($758k), Roberts Wesleyan University ($203k).
- Does Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation.
- Where is Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation based?
- Alvin & Ruth Thiem Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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