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Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust at a glance

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Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$244k
Granted FY2026still arriving
50
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$805kArts & Culture$545kHuman Services$432kEducation$340kReligion$255kPhilanthropy$146kYouth Development$37kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2026 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k45 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rochester Fringe Festival Inc$47,500
Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester$25,000
Johns Hopkins University School of Med$25,000
Foodlink$15,000
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$10,000
Syracuse University College of Law$8,000
Trillium Health$7,500
WXXI$7,000
Jewish Community Center$7,000
Jewish Family Service of Rochester Inc$6,500
Jewish Community Federation$6,000
Al Sigl Center$5,150
Hope Hall$5,000
Rochester General Hospital$5,000
Episcopal SeniorLife Communities$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rochester Accessible Adventures: $1k → 14%Heritage Christian Services: $1k → 14%Heritage Christian Services: $1k → 14%Downstairs Cabaret Theatre: $500 → 14%Downstairs Cabaret Theatre: $500 → 14%Downstairs Cabaret Theatre: $500 → 14%Lifetime Assistance Inc: $2k → 14%Lifetime Assistance Inc: $2k → 14%Lifetime Assistance Inc: $2k → 14%Lifetime Assistance Inc: $2k → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $7k → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $2k → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $1k → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $750 → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $500 → 14%Rochester Rotary Charitable Trusts Inc: $1k → 14%Episcopal SeniorLife Communities: $5k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%Center for Youth Services: $2k → 14%Center for Youth Services: $2k → 14%Center for Youth Services: $1k → 14%Center for Youth Services: $1k → 14%Center for Youth Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester: $25k → 14%Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester: $25k → 14%lIFESPAN: $5k → 14%Lifespan: $4k → 14%Lifespan: $3k → 14%lIFESPAN: $3k → 14%Lifespan: $3k → 14%Lifespan: $3k → 14%lIFESPAN: $3k → 14%Lifespan: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 87 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2026, 48 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
34

Total granted

$2.8M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    9× · 2017–2026 · $564k · revenue +81%
  • RF
    Rochester Fringe Festival Inc
    9× · 2017–2026 · $323k · revenue +38%
  • MC
    MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2026 · $188k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TB
    TEMPLE BRITH KODESH
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TH
    THE HARLEY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +51%
  • TL
    THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
2
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
3
Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
4
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
5
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
6
Rochester Civic Theatre

The mission of rochester civic theatre is to engage community organizations through collaboration and shared resources, enrich lives through education and outreach, and elevate human connection through theatre arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
8
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services
9
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
10
Rochester Downtown Alliance

To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.

—
11
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
12
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation

Rochester Downtown Development Corporation drives economic vitality in Downtown Rochester through innovation and collaboration.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Push Physical Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 134 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
62/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Community Center: $236,200 · OtherJewish Community CenterMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $188,050 · OtherMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCWXXI: $85,000 · OtherWXXIJewish Community Federation: $68,000 · OtherAl Sigl Center: $56,850 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC: $56,800 · OtherAlzheimer's Association: $55,500 · OtherJewish Cmty Cntr of Greater Rochester: $47,500 · Other+82 more: $618,447 · Other+82 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $564,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $110,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+10 more: $83,200 · Education+10 moreRochester Fringe Festival Inc: $323,000 · Recreation & SportsRochester Fr…GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC: $40,850 · Arts & CultureJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $14,000 · Arts & CulturePush Physical Theatre Inc: $13,200 · Arts & CultureWRITERS & BOOKS INC: $11,150 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGARTH FAGAN DANCE INC: $6,200 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $24,500 · Human ServicesWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL SENIORLIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $95,000 · ReligionJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $66,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC: $12,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,412,347Education$757,950Recreation & Sports$323,000Arts & Culture$123,400Human Services$111,250Religion$95,000Philanthropy$82,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $564,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Fringe Festival Inc: $323,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $188,050 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $110,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $95,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $66,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC: $56,800 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRILLIUM HEALTH INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC: $40,850 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER INC: $32,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HALL: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHighland Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPush Physical Theatre Inc: $13,200 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWRITERS & BOOKS INC: $11,150 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $10,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $10,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLUTA CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $9,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISMUP INC: $8,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEQUICENTER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGARTH FAGAN DANCE INC: $6,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $5,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Fringe Festival Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
  • Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Highland Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Push Physical Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
  • Who funds WRITERS & BOOKS INC ↗

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.

Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Esl Charitable Founda…United Way of Greater…Greater Rochester Hea…Paychex Charitable Fo…William & Sheila Kona…Rochester Area Commun…Waldron Rise Foundati…Charles J & Burton S …The Florence M Muller…
Max and Marian Farash Charitable FoundationNY126.1× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust 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.

    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 134 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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