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CDC of Upstate New York Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$556kFood & Nutrition$100kCommunity Improvement$7kPublic Benefit$6kReligion$5kArts & Culture$3kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ROCHESTER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$7,380
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW YORK KITCHEN: $100k → 10%MEDINA RAILROAD MUSEUM: $3k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 14%NYS TROOPERS: $6k → 14%MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%IRONDEQUOIT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $150k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $138k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $75k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 14%GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $35k → 14%CDS WOLF FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ROCHESTER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
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
4
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
5
Rochesterworks Inc

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

Employment
6
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.

Education
7
University of Rio Grande

The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…

Education
8
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
9
One Roc Inc

The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Red Lake Nation College

To provide excellent higher education that is grounded in the ojibwe language and culture of the red lake nation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Rochester. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $462,500 · EducationGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INCRochester Institute of Technology — $40,000 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL+1 more — $5,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW YORK STA…MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherIRONDEQUOIT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST — $5,000 · OtherRochester Downtown Development Corporation — $7,380 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH — $6,220 · Public BenefitMedina Railroad Museum — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCDS WOLF FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Health
Education$542,500Food & Nutrition$100,000Other$24,500Community Improvement$7,380Public Benefit$6,220Arts & Culture$3,000Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $462,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH — $6,220 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedina Railroad Museum — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCDS WOLF FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Summers Foundation IncNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Summers Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Wegman Family Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization CDC of Upstate New York Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to CDC of Upstate New York Inc?

    Find your warmest path to CDC of Upstate New York 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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