· Public charity
Children's Institute Inc
Joining together to raise every child's complete wellbeing.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $105,010 |
| GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $57,225 |
| WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOLS | $37,480 |
| WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,805 |
| WEEDSPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,375 |
| FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,832 |
| MORIAH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,250 |
| BALLSTON SPA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,248 |
| HONEOYE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,184 |
| CLYDE SAVANNAH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,339 |
| DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $9,234 |
| FRANKLINVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $6,582 |
| RED CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,625 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +107%
- DCDISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +16%
- SBSOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +12%
Funded once
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALOone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +5%- WHWEST HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $19k
- SVSHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -28%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Share Our Strength · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Children's Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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