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Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CHARLES J & BURTON S AUGUST FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $286k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES$50,000
SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH$50,000
UNITY$50,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$45,000
MARY CARIOLA CHILDRENS CENTER$44,770
EQUICENTER$30,000
ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME$26,732
FRIENDLY HOME$25,000
FOODLINK$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER$25,000
CENTER FOR HOPE$24,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL NEW YORK$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$20,000
AURORA HOUSE$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $675k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $50k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $25k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $25k → 14%THE HOUSE OF MERCY: $25k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $25k → 14%REACH ADVOCACY: $20k → 14%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $27k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $44k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $40k → 14%BRIGHTSTAR COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 14%ROCOVERY FITNESS: $4k → 14%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES: $100k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%MEDICAL MOTOR SERVICE: $7k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $6k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $5k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $27k → 14%HOUSE OF MERCY: $5k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%CHILDREN AWAITING PARENTS: $25k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $6k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST: $25k → 14%JCC OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $86k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%JCC OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%JCC OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 37 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
56

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+19%

Still filing today

68%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    6× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +61%
  • RC
    Rochester Childfirst Network
    4× · 2018–2024 · $134k · revenue +19%
  • HH
    HOPE HALL
    3× · 2017–2023 · $129k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROCHESTER PUBLIC CHARTER PARTNERS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • LA
    LIFETIME ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -90%
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +253%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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 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
3
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
4
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
5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Rochesterworks Inc

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

Employment
8
Greater Rochester Housing Partnership Inc

Greater rochester housing partnership, inc. (grhp) was established primarily to provide financing for affordable housing to social services and housing agencies, either directly or by participating with banks, in the rochester, new york…

Housing & Shelter
9
RochesterMonroe County Homeless Continuum of Care Inc

The Rochester/Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) is a collaborative partnership which provides leadership, linkages, education, and guidance to eliminate homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Rochester General Hospital

To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…

Health
11
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
12
Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization Inc

The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%3%<5yr12%6%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr25%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr25%35%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
8%
334/4,321

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 102 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
52/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rochester Childfirst Network — $134,211 · OtherRochester Childfirst NetworkHOPE HALL — $129,248 · OtherHOPE HALLHILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $111,000 · OtherMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $110,770 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherSENECA WATERWAYS COUNCIL - BSA — $100,000 · OtherROCHESTER PUBLIC CHARTER PARTNERS — $100,000 · OtherLIFETIME ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherAL SIGL CENTER — $75,000 · Other+53 more — $1,278,840 · Other+53 moreHOUSE OF MERCY INC — $107,485 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF MERCY IN…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $105,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY …WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $83,500 · Human ServicesWILLOW DOMESTIC V…HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE CHRISTIA…Rochester Presbyterian Home Inc — $26,732 · Human ServicesROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES THRIVE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesREACH Advocacy Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $41,790 · Human Services+6 moreROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $103,000 · HealthROCHESTER …Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc — $60,000 · HealthRonald McD…EQUICENTER INC — $55,000 · HealthEQUICENTER…ROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME — $45,000 · HealthROCHESTER …PERINATAL NETWORK OF MONROE COUNTY INC — $37,000 · HealthPERINATAL …+6 more — $39,538 · Health+6 moreRochester Institute of Technology — $232,000 · EducationRochester…EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationEDUCATION…ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationROCHESTER…+1 more — $3,000 · EducationHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MARGARET HOME INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INITIATIVES INC — $32,500 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyEndless Highway Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyFOODLINK INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionDIMITRI HOUSE INC — $6,798 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,214,069Human Services$575,007Health$339,538Education$305,000Housing & Shelter$140,000Philanthropy$77,500Food & Nutrition$76,798

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $232,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network — $134,211 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE HALL — $129,248 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $111,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $110,770 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC — $107,485 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $105,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $103,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $83,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $62,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEQUICENTER INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCenter for Disability Rights Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERINATAL NETWORK OF MONROE COUNTY INC — $37,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc — $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $35,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBADEN STREET SETTLEMENT OF ROCHESTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC — $34,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC — $31,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CLUB — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budget441 Ministries Beechwood Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES THRIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NORMAN HOWARD SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $21,605 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEndless Highway Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREACH Advocacy Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARGARET HOME INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrightstar Community Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC — $10,000 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.

Rochester Area Commun…United Way of Greater…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Esl Charitable Founda…Greater Rochester Hea…Max and Marian Farash…Paychex Charitable Fo…William & Sheila Kona…Rochester Area Commun…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Polisseni Foundat…Waldron Rise Foundati…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY97.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc

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 Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation 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 102 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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